ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, “Space—Revisiting Arendt and a trip to The Jungle,” focuses on the spaces in which refugees move. Although the chapter touches on Jacque Rancière’s and Alain Badiou’s ideas about public space, and Michael Warner’s work on “counter-publics,” the bulk of the chapter applies movement analysis concepts of space in revisiting Hannah Arendt’s “space of appearance.” For Arendt, such spaces occur whenever individuals come together to disclose their identities in speech-driven, ephemeral moments. The chapter theorizes the inverse idea of motion-driven “spaces of disappearance,” which suppress personhood. The chapter applies neo-Arendtian and movement analysis rubrics of space to Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy’s play The Jungle (2017), an immersive work about the imminent destruction of a refugee camp in Calais, France, based on their applied theater initiatives that rely on creating theatrical spaces within temporary, geodesic structures.
