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It was the tears of the children which drew us to Calais. It was a line in the newspapers about a... more It was the tears of the children which drew us to Calais. It was a line in the newspapers about another grand demolition of the Jungle in Calais in 2009. A circus act had been concocted to impress the public that the authorities on both sides were indeed in charge. It described with detail the bulldozers and flame throwers. Amidst all that noise were these tiny figures in tears. There were no images of them. Just a line which captured their desolation.
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Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and has become a point of sustained te... more Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and has become a point of sustained tension between the UK and France, never more so than in recent years. This book offers a comprehensive insight into the making and unmaking of the ‘Jungle’, one of Europe’s longest-standing refugee camps. The book unpacks the perceived threat of the jungle, seeing both its revival and destruction through the context of a broader border politics. This book’s exploration of the representation and governance of the contentious Calais camps will be useful to students and scholars of forced migration, border politics, displacement, refugee crisis, camps and human trauma.
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Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces is a comprehensive reference source for emer... more Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces is a comprehensive reference source for emerging scholarly perspectives on the use of new media technology to engage people in socially- and politically-oriented conversations and examines communication trends in these virtual environments. Highlighting relevant coverage across topics such as online free expression, political campaigning, and online blogging, this book is ideally designed for government officials, researchers, academics, graduate students, and practitioners interested in how new media is revolutionizing political and social communications.
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; This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe t... more ; This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe today and reviews Britain's approach to provide sanctuary from its ideological/historical origins to its policy enactments over time (1905‐2016). That approach resonates with the deep tensions the issue of immigration raises within the nation state and the intense uncoupling of refuge and sanctuary from its humanitarian initiatives. We juxtapose the U.K. government's engagement with the refugee crisis against its " tradition of humanitarianism " in which Britain has idealized itself as sanctuary to those who have fled from persecution, torture, or conflict. This historic ideal of refuge has been challenged with numerous immigration and asylum‐related policies as well as increased securitization of border controls in response to the changing political context since 1905. We argue that " sanctuary " is a diminished and contentious component of its present‐day humanitarianism involving increased securitization and asylum policies with stringent immigration controls. We trace the U.K.'s harsh and restrictive stance toward the refugee and the asylum seeker through a series of policies from the Aliens Act in 1905 to the Dubs Amendment of 2016 which seek to delegitimize refugees, enact tighter barriers to entry, and cast them as economic " migrants " and as suspect figures in a post‐9/11 world.
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Politics and Policy, 2018
This article traces the United Kingdom's tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting ... more This article traces the United Kingdom's tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe today and reviews Britain's approach to providing sanctuary from its ideological/historical origins to its policy enactments over time (1905-2016). That approach resonates with the deep tensions the issue of immigration raises within the nation state and the intense uncoupling of refuge and sanctuary from its humanitarian initiatives. We juxtapose the U.K. government's engagement with the refugee crisis against its " tradition of humanitarianism " in which Britain has idealized itself as sanctuary to those who have fled from persecution, torture, or conflict. This historic ideal of refuge has been challenged with numerous immigration and asylum-related policies as well as increased securitization of border controls in response to the changing political context since 1905. We argue that " sanctuary " is a diminished and contentious component of its present-day humanitarianism involving increased securitization and asylum policies with stringent immigration controls. We trace the United Kingdom's harsh and restrictive stance toward the refugee and the asylum seeker through a series of policies from the Aliens Act in 1905 to the Dubs Amendment of 2016 which seek to delegitimize refugees, enact tighter barriers to entry, and cast them as economic 'migrants' and as suspect figures in a post-9/11 world.
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The third narrative space: The human interest story and the crisis of the human form', Ethical Sp... more The third narrative space: The human interest story and the crisis of the human form', Ethical Space, 13(4): http://communicationethics.net/sub-journals/abstract.php?id=00109 The third narrative space: The human interest story and the crisis of the human form Between the different models of broadcasting and publishing is an interstitial space of countering dominant paradigms. Their existence is both a symbolic and material affirmation of human struggles and narratives. Through a strand of medical humanitarianism, we examine the so-called 'migrant crisis in Europe'. While media reported the 'migrant' through their transgressions of state boundaries and as unnecessary entities in 'civilised Europe', there has been a quest to reconstitute the human from the third sector. While the conjoining of capital (i.e. the commercialisation of news) and the commodification of the human is a sustained endeavour in private and public models of publishing, the 'third narrative space' seeks to thwart and resist these imperatives by re-humanising refugee struggles as 'human struggles'. This reconstitution of the human works to gain both public attention and funding, and in the process invites both moral and altruistic challenges for these organisations
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Food and consumption practices are cultural symbols of communities, nations, identity and a colle... more Food and consumption practices are cultural symbols of communities, nations, identity and a collective imaginary which bind people in complex ways. Media framed the 2013 horsemeat scandal by fusing discourses beyond the politics of food. Three recurrent media frames and dominant discourses converged with wider political debates and cultural stereotypes in circulation in the media around immigration and intertextual discourse on historical food scandals. What this reveals is how food consumption and food-related scandals give rise to affective media debates and frames which invoke fear of the other and the transgression of a sacred British identity, often juxtaposing " Britishness " with a constructed " Otherness " .
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Calais became a space of renewed media interest in the summer of 2015, with an increased visualit... more Calais 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 nonentity 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'.
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The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily ... more The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily transgression of consuming something so alien to the British psyche. The imagination of the horse as a noble and mythic figure in British history and sociological imagination was invoked to construct the consumption of horsemeat as a social taboo and an immoral proposition in the British media debates. This paper traces the horsemeat scandal and its media framing in the UK. Much of the aversion to horsemeat was intertextually bound with discourses of immigration, the expansion of the EU and the threat in tandem to the UK. Food as a social and cultural artefact laden with symbolic meaning and national pride became a platform to construct the ‘Other’ – in this case the Eastern European Other. The media debates on the horsemeat scandal interwove the opening up of the EU and particularly UK to the influx of Eastern European migration. The horsemeat controversy in implicating the Eastern Europeans for the contamination of the supply chain became a means to not just construct the ‘Other’ but also to entwine contemporary policy debates about immigration. This temporal framing of contemporary debates enables a nation to renew and contemporise its notions of ‘otherness’ while sustaining an historic social imaginary of itself.
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The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily ... more The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily transgression of consuming something so alien to the British psyche. The imagination of the horse as a noble and mythic figure in British history and sociological imagination was invoked to construct the consumption of horsemeat as a social taboo and an immoral proposition in the British media debates. This paper traces the horsemeat scandal and its media framing in the UK. Much of the aversion to horsemeat was intertextually bound with discourses of immigration, the expansion of the EU and the threat in tandem to the UK. Food as a social and cultural artefact laden with symbolic meaning and national pride became a platform to construct the 'Other' – in this case the Eastern European Other. The media debates on the horsemeat scandal interwove the opening up of the EU and particularly UK to the influx of Eastern European migration. The horsemeat controversy in implicating the Eastern Europeans for the contamination of the supply chain became a means to not just construct the 'Other' but also to entwine contemporary policy debates about immigration. This temporal framing of contemporary debates enables a nation to renew and contemporise its notions of 'otherness' while sustaining an historic social imaginary of itself.
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Fast Capitalism, 2015
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M/C Journal, Aug 2015
Curation has moved from the ‘rarefied’ atmosphere of museums and exhibitions into journalism wher... more Curation has moved from the ‘rarefied’ atmosphere of museums and exhibitions into journalism where new discourses and practices are proliferating. The changes have attracted academic attention such that journalism is now facing its own curatorial turn akin to what Paul O’Neill identified in museum studies. This article draws on a meta-analysis of journal articles in the field to argue that the prevalent instrumentalist definitions of curation are necessary but not sufficient to capture what the shifts in discourse and practices mean for journalism. In order to derive a more nuanced conceptualization of curation that includes the instrumental and metaphorical, the article draws on literature beyond the field of journalism studies to trace the changing meanings of the term from curation from antiquity to the digital age. The conditions are propitious for the movement of new practices into newsrooms but where it fits in relation to existing professions is intellectually unclear because of a lack of conceptual clarity as to how curation overlaps and differs from other roles. The article offers a preliminary attempt to address this.
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International Journal of E-Politics, Jul 2015
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International Journal of E-Politics, Jul 2015
Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets have become tighter, governm... more Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets have become tighter, government finances constrained, and an ideology of austerity has become dominant. The British version of austerity privileges cuts to government spending by cutting welfare benefits, and legitimizes this through individual failure explanations of poverty and stereotypes of benefit claimants. Austerity food blogs, written by those forced to live hand to mouth, are a hybrid form of digital culture that merges narratives of lived experience, food practices and political commentary in ways that challenge the dominant views on poverty. “A Girl Called Jack” disrupts the austerity hegemony by breaking the silence the stigma of poverty imposes on the impoverished; personalizing poverty through Jack Monroe’s narratives of her lived experience of it, inviting the pity of the reader and refuting reductionist explanations of the causes of poverty. Monroe also challenges austerity through practices derived through her personal knowledge gained during the struggle to survive and eat healthily on £10-a-week food budget. This combination of narrative and survival practices written evocatively and eloquently resonated powerfully; however the response to the blog highlights deep uneasiness in British society over growing levels of poverty, and deep divisions over who is responsible for addressing it; and more fundamentally, who the modern poor are and what modern poverty is.
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