Vol. 7 (2021): post(s)
Akademos

The Jungle of Calais: Between Liminality, Borderland, and place of possibilities 

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Melanye Garland
Melanye Garland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/post(s).v7i7.2399

Published 2021-11-15

Keywords

  • Liminality,
  • The Jungle,
  • (post)colonial,
  • decolonial,
  • artistic methodologies,
  • ethnographic poetry
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Garland, M. (2021). The Jungle of Calais: Between Liminality, Borderland, and place of possibilities . Post(s), 7(1), 68–97. https://doi.org/10.18272/post(s).v7i7.2399
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Abstract

This essay is based exclusively on artistic and pseudo ethnographic research of The Jungle migrant camp in 2016 in the city of Calais/France at the maritime border with England. Through my experience in situ, described through artistic methodologies and poetic writings, I embraced the concept of liminality from a border perspective, going through postcolonial actions and attitudes within the conceptual liminality framework and its transformative, destructive, constructive and In-betweenness characteristics that this ritualistic process entails. From my perspective as an artist and future anthropologist, I am interested in highlighting local frontier narratives that need to be present in our reflection for a more supportive, collaborative and communitarian future, decolonizing our way of perceiving "peripheral" places and contemporary borderland, incor-
porating them as active agents in the city"™ s development.

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