Naslov
Interview with Jason De León

Autori
Hameršak, Marijana ; De León, Jason

Izvornik
Etnološka tribina : godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva (0351-1944) 52 (2022); 238-249

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, ostalo, stručni

Ključne riječi
anthropology, ethnography, archaeology of the contemporary, Jason De León, interview, irregularized migration

Sažetak
Interview with Jason De León Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles with his lab located at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. In 2009 he initiated today’s prominent Undocumented Migration Project, a long- term collaborative art and student-inclusive anthropological study of clandestine migration between Latin America and the United States. The project uses a combination of ethnographic, visual, archaeological, and forensic approaches to document and understand various aspects of unauthorized border crossings and the evolving material culture associated with them, as well to assist families of missing migrants search for their loved ones. De León is currently the Executive Director of the project and its Principle Investigator. De León is the author of awarded and thoughtfully written book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2015), which features photos by Michael Wells. Recently he has been publishing on smuggling, the moral economy of undocumented migration, the heritage dimension of the material culture of crossings, the history and ethnography of counter-infrastructures developed by marginal communities in the Mexico-USA borderlands, the physiological costs of undocumented migration in the same borderlands, and other topics. He has been co-curating many exhibitions related to undocumented migration, including the award- winning exhibition State of Exception (with Amanda Krugliak and Richard Barnes, 2013–2017). He is the head curator of the pop-up exhibition or installation Hostile Terrain 94 (UMP project, since 2018) presented all over the world with the idea to raise awareness about the deaths that have been occurring almost daily at the Mexico-US border since 1994 as a result of the US strategy of border control. De León is also an active musician who played with the hardcore-punk-reggae band Youth in Asia in the 1990s and with the Americana band The Wilcox Hotel in the mid-2000s. He is currently involved in various musical projects including periodic reunions with The Wilcox Hotel. Marijana Hameršak interviewed Jason De León for Etnološka tribina in October 2022.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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