"Calais's "Jungle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4755401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debarati Sanyal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2017.139.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2742240605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
In fall 2016, the French state razed Calais's "jungle," encampments that had sheltered close to 10,000 refugees. An analysis of film and photography set in the "jungle" highlights practices of resistance to the interplay of humanitarian compassion and securitarian repression in the destruction of contemporary camps, nuancing the view of borderscapes as sites of total biopolitical capture, and of refugees as "bare life
Ancient history · Archaeology · Calais · Ethnology · Geography · Jungle · Refugee · History · North African History and Literature
Necropolitical Compassion
Identity in transition
Biopolitics of migration
Modulating Modernist Form (On Chimeras of Form
Children under occupation
Narrative and ethical (in)action
Humanitarian Detention and Figures of Persistence at the Border
Recurrent spectres
Entangled memories of human rights in Kristina Norman’s video art
Anticolonialism in the Present Tense
From Empty Parking Lots to Border Fences
Writing back to Brexit
| Citations per year | 1.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |