Making Place for My Space/Making Space for our Displacement

An Embodied Autoethnography of a Reflexive Communicative Urban Planner

Bibliographic Data

ID2408993
AuthorsGeorge Villanueva (0000-0002-0115-447X)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue2
Pages157-166
Publication date2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708619879197
OpenAlexW2976562996
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

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 selves in dialogue with social context, I map my intersectional identities onto larger discourses of community advocacy, racial capitalism, subaltern studies, and decolonization. Ultimately, I argue that another radical self/us/we is possible and point to present-day forms of community organizing and popular education that offer pathways to resist displacement and transform cities toward the arc of social justice

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Complicity · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Gentrification · Narrative · Political science · Reflexivity · Sociology · Anthropology · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Urban Planning and Governance · Gender Studies · History

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