George Villanueva
Biographic Data
| ID | 93830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Villanueva |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Villanueva |
| SIGNATURE | VILLANUEVA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0115-447X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hip Hop Multimodal Infrastructure: Sustaining the Culture in Community
This article fuses scholarship from hip hop studies, multimodality, and communication infrastructure theory to introduce the framework “hip hop multimodal infrastructure” as an approach to studying the interaction of hip hop culture situated in place across cities. Hip hop multimodal infrastructure consists of two interactive components, “hip hop storytellers”—made up of hip hop’s core expressive modes; deejays, emcees, breakdancers, graffiti wri…
Multimodal Autoethnographic Sincerity
Critically departing from theories of autoethnography, diaspora, and multimodality, this article introduces “multimodal autoethnographic sincerity,” which I define as a critical communication method that puts the researcher’s affective feelings in conversation with their mediated productions of culture. I use multimodal autoethnographic sincerity to further produce knowledge on an ethnographic film, which I filmed in my father’s provincial hometo…
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square
Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose "Black radical placemaking" as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futures. Using George Floyd Square as a case study and through photographic fieldwork, I argue that Black radical placemaking promotes a political aesthetics constituted of racialized inclusion, mutual aid, and reparative justice. This stands opposite to tra…
Designing a Chinatown anti-displacement map and walking tour with communication asset mapping
This paper illustrates a design activism project that led to a co-designed ‘anti-displacement map’ and ‘walking tour’ in Chicago’s Chinatown. The work argues that one way to deploy urban design projects that consider the fears of displacement in gentrifying neighbourhoods is to integrate what aspects of the neighbourhood existing community actors value and promote advocacy for a future that these participants envision. The project accomplished th…
Making Place for My Space/Making Space for our Displacement: An Embodied Autoethnography of a Reflexive Communicative Urban Planner
Styled as a letter to my multiple selves, this autoethnography performs a cultural politics of gentrification embodied in my journeys as a community activist, urban planning practitioner, and scholar collaborating with marginalized communities of color in cities. Based on these experiences I uniquely theorize displacement by engaging my affective feelings of empowerment, complicity, melancholy, and self-healing. Critically theorizing my various s…
Engaged Media Scholarship: Making Place with Community Organizers
Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South Los Angeles
A delicate touch is required to empower neighborhoods using civic media. Funding is persistently scarce. Especially in marginalized neighborhoods, blunt designs can be counterproductive and even entrench complex problems. New metaphors may be needed to guide design and empower local neighborhoods. Urban acupuncture is used as the basis for this study, emphasizing a light-touch strategy that has shown success in Brazil with urban transit, and more…
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square
Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose "Black radical placemaking" as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futures. Using George Floyd Square as a case study and through photographic fieldwork, I argue that Black radical placemaking promotes a political aesthetics constituted of racialized inclusion, mutual aid, and reparative justice. This stands opposite to tra…
Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South Los Angeles
A delicate touch is required to empower neighborhoods using civic media. Funding is persistently scarce. Especially in marginalized neighborhoods, blunt designs can be counterproductive and even entrench complex problems. New metaphors may be needed to guide design and empower local neighborhoods. Urban acupuncture is used as the basis for this study, emphasizing a light-touch strategy that has shown success in Brazil with urban transit, and more…
Engaged Media Scholarship: Making Place with Community Organizers
Making Place for My Space/Making Space for our Displacement: An Embodied Autoethnography of a Reflexive Communicative Urban Planner
Styled as a letter to my multiple selves, this autoethnography performs a cultural politics of gentrification embodied in my journeys as a community activist, urban planning practitioner, and scholar collaborating with marginalized communities of color in cities. Based on these experiences I uniquely theorize displacement by engaging my affective feelings of empowerment, complicity, melancholy, and self-healing. Critically theorizing my various s…
Designing a Chinatown anti-displacement map and walking tour with communication asset mapping
This paper illustrates a design activism project that led to a co-designed ‘anti-displacement map’ and ‘walking tour’ in Chicago’s Chinatown. The work argues that one way to deploy urban design projects that consider the fears of displacement in gentrifying neighbourhoods is to integrate what aspects of the neighbourhood existing community actors value and promote advocacy for a future that these participants envision. The project accomplished th…
Multimodal Autoethnographic Sincerity
Critically departing from theories of autoethnography, diaspora, and multimodality, this article introduces “multimodal autoethnographic sincerity,” which I define as a critical communication method that puts the researcher’s affective feelings in conversation with their mediated productions of culture. I use multimodal autoethnographic sincerity to further produce knowledge on an ethnographic film, which I filmed in my father’s provincial hometo…
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square
Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose "Black radical placemaking" as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futures. Using George Floyd Square as a case study and through photographic fieldwork, I argue that Black radical placemaking promotes a political aesthetics constituted of racialized inclusion, mutual aid, and reparative justice. This stands opposite to tra…
Hip Hop Multimodal Infrastructure: Sustaining the Culture in Community
This article fuses scholarship from hip hop studies, multimodality, and communication infrastructure theory to introduce the framework “hip hop multimodal infrastructure” as an approach to studying the interaction of hip hop culture situated in place across cities. Hip hop multimodal infrastructure consists of two interactive components, “hip hop storytellers”—made up of hip hop’s core expressive modes; deejays, emcees, breakdancers, graffiti wri…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Autoethnography (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)