Blogs exploring material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais:
- Breaching two worlds: seeing through borders in CalaisThe first of four MMB blogposts exploring the material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais. By Bridget Anderson. As we walked around Calais, one of the group remarked ‘It’s just like The City & the City!’ She was spot on. In his novel The City & the City (2009),… Read more: Breaching two worlds: seeing through borders in Calais
- Notes from a visit to CalaisA video blogpost from our series exploring the material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais. By Nariman Massoumi. Nariman Massoumi is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol, and Co-ordinator of the MMB Research Challenge Representation, Belonging, Futures. His filmmaking… Read more: Notes from a visit to Calais
- Time and (im)mobility in Calais’ borderlandsThe third in our series of blogposts exploring the material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais. By Juan Zhang. At the Dover border crossing I sat in the backseat in silence waiting for questions from the immigration officer inspecting the four passports we handed over together as a group.… Read more: Time and (im)mobility in Calais’ borderlands
- Borderscapes: policing withinThe fourth in our series of blogposts exploring the material and symbolic infrastructure of border regimes in the port city of Calais. By Victoria Hattam. Governments around the globe have been building border walls for decades: Calais is no exception. At least since the Touquet Treaty, the UK government has helped fund the securitization of… Read more: Borderscapes: policing within