Hicks, Dan
Mallet, Sarah
2021-03-24T14:51:48Z
2021-03-24T14:51:48Z
2019
978-1-5292-0619-7
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lande-the-calais-jungle-and-beyond
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/18257
This book looks at La Lande – the site of the ‘Jungle’ at
Calais during the years 2015 to 2016 – through the lens of
Contemporary Archaeology. Such an approach draws on the
distinctive focus on material culture, the built environment, and
landscapes and ecologies, that emerge through the application
of approaches from anthropological archaeology to the most
recent past and the undocumented present. This exercise
in Contemporary Archaeology aims to expand the field of
material culture studies (Hicks, 2010) through a foregrounding
of place, time, transformation, visuality, (post)colonial legacies,
and intervention, and also to open new dialogues with the
anthropological museum as a political space. The book is a
companion volume to an exhibit, also titled Lande: The Calais
‘Jungle’ and beyond, displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum during
2019. Taken together, the book and the exhibit aim to raise
cross-disciplinary questions around the material, environmental,
temporal and visual dimensions of La Lande as a place of
dehumanising borderwork, governance and violence on the one
hand, and on the other as a ‘space of appearance’ and protest,
and as a site for comparison. In this respect, they also represent
a contribution to the prospect of a Visual Archaeology, and
towards the possibilities of Activist Archaeologies that engage
with a wider cross-cultural moment of visual politics. We
introduce the idea of giving time as one way of conceptualising
the work of archaeologists in the contemporary world that takes
inspiration from the many grassroots movements around Calais.
We also introduce the idea of militarist colonialism as a key part
of the ongoing human and material legacies encountered at La
Lande.
156 páginas
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University of Bristol
Sociology
Lande: the calais ‘jungle’ and beyond
Sociología
Cultura material
Cultura
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