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dc.contributor.authorIBRAHIM, Yen_US
dc.contributor.authorhowarth, Aen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-19T11:53:08Z
dc.date.available2016-02-15en_US
dc.date.submitted2016-05-24T14:56:19.522Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/446
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15929
dc.description.abstractCalais became a space of renewed media interest in the summer of 2015, with an increased visuality into the state of refugees’ living conditions and their lives. We examine the images of the camps dubbed ‘the Jungle’ over time, when media started reporting on the camp which was demolished in 2009 and the more recent resurrections termed as ‘Jungle II’ or the ‘new Jungle’, thereafter. Earlier media coverage of the Jungle accompanied less visual depictions of their living conditions or daily existence beyond the threat they posed to their immediate environment. However, compared to 2009 there has been a surge in the number of images of the refugees, particularly a steep rise in 2014 and 2015. The refugee as an object of suffering and trauma is the subject of an abject gaze where the corporeal body is both a non-entity and invisible. Both death and the accident are ascribed to it, as inhabitants in this ‘state of exception’. We examine these aesthetics of trauma and violence in the liminal space of Calais. The increased visuality and curiosity in the camps since 2015 reinscribed the refugee as a political by-product of border politics, accentuating the refugee camp as a violent and dissonant space in civilised Europe. Despite the intimacy of the imagery, the increased visuality showcased the madness and futility produced through a border politics of legitimacy and ‘bare life’.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publishermeccsaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofNetworking Knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectCalaisen_US
dc.subjectMigrantsen_US
dc.subjectVisualityen_US
dc.subjectRefugee campsen_US
dc.subjectthe Jungleen_US
dc.titleImaging the Jungles of Calais: Media Visuality and the Refugee Campen_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder2016. The authors
pubs.issue4en_US
pubs.notesNot knownen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.publisher-urlhttp://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/446en_US
pubs.volume9en_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-02-15en_US


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