Description
18th episode of the utopia3 podcast with Jason De Leon
Interview in English.
Today on Utopia3 we are happy to welcome Jason De Leon, anthropologist, activist, and 2017 McArthur Genius grant award winner, whose work U.S. border militarization and its staggering human will help us re-orient the the often tone-deaf discussion - among both the right and the left in America - to one that suggests that a more just and possibly safer reality could be achieved by placing human rights ahead of a blinkered focus on security. Jason, in cooperation with the Colibri Center Human Rights in Tucson, AZ - has also founded the Undocumented Migrants Project (UMP), which uses a combination of ethnographic, archeological, forensic, and visual anthropological approaches to understand various aspects of unauthorized border crossings including the many forms of violence and suffering that characterize the process.
Over the past few years, the UMP has sponsored an international participatory art exhibit called Hostile Terrain 94. The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found. This installation will simultaneously take place at a large number of institutions, both nationally and globally in 2021 throughout 2022.
To donate to the Colibri center for Human Right and the Undocumented Migrants Project, please go to: https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/
Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon : https://www.jasonpatrickdeleon.com/land-of-open-graves
Interviewer : Jonathan Matthew Schmitt
Editing : Martial Mingam
Photo : Courtesy of UCLA Anthropology Dept.
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