How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais "Jungle". to reassess how we understand 'crisis', activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Dan's research combines Archaeology and Anthropology to study the modern and contemporary world through material and visual culture, from museum collections to landscapes and 'heritage'. Sarah Mallet is Postdoctoral Researcher and TORCH Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and co-curator for the Pitt Rivers Museum exhibition LANDE: the Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond.