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  • Chapter 19 - The ‘Jungle’ Is Here; The Jungle Is Outside

  • from Part III - Confronting Marginalisation
  • Edited by Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Wenona Giles, York University, Toronto, Faraaz Mahomed
  • Book:
    A Better Future
    Published online:
    06 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 427-450

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the borders of education in relation to contemporary refugee issues in Europe, specifically addressing the informal ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais, Northern France, where University of East London (UEL) colleagues taught an accredited Life Stories short course between September 2015 and October 2016. It suggests that this pedagogy apparently beyond the borders of the conventional university is in some ways precisely the terrain of the university and education more generally. It disassembles ‘education’ itself, in a context where it was at the same time a humanitarian response, a human right and a political field of reciprocity, traversed by processes of coalition, commoning and association. Within this field, the outside of the camp, more than the camp itself, might appear as a jungle, irrational and denying humanity, while the ‘Jungle’ space itself contested neoliberal education and counterposed its own ‘university’.