José Enrique Hasemann Lara, Ph.D., M.P.H.

José Enrique Hasemann Lara is a postdoctoral resarcher at the working group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Leins since February 2022.

With the support of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung postdoc stipend (02.2022 – 01.2023) he is working on speculation and racialization in the newly established Zones for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDES) on the Honduran Bay Islands. ZEDES are private city projects associated with enclave libertarianism and are sustained through speculation driven by local and international actors. His project will seek to address how processes of speculation spearheaded by the ZEDES re-inscribe domains of difference and discrimination which re/produce inequality in Honduras.

José Enrique Hasemann Lara holds a Ph.D. in anthropology (UCONN, 2021) and a M.A. in applied biocultural medical anthropology (USF, 2011) and M.P.H. in global communicable diseases (USF, 2011). His past research has focused on public health, inequality, racialization, and the unequal distribution of access to public goods in the urban landscapes of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, Honduras.

Publications

2016            

Singer, Merrill, José Hasemann and Abigail Raynor. “'I Feel Suffocated:' Understandings of Climate Change in an Inner-City Heat Island.” Medical Anthropology 35(6):453-456.

Publications under review (n.d.)

Looking beyond vector control to address mosquito-borne diseases: critical approaches to public health in Honduras. (Latin American Perspectives).

Care in Ruination: accessing children’s critiques of health through playwriting. (Medical Anthropology).

“Crisis” Narratives in Health: Privatizing Public Health in Honduras. (Medical Anthropology).