Joaquín Villanueva

Joaquín Villanueva is a critical human geographer based at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Joaquín’s current research, to be published by Duke University Press, explores the history of planning and the urbanization of US capital and empire in mid-twentieth century Puerto Rico. His work has appeared in Antipode, Society and Space, Space and Polity, NACLA, and Centro Journal. He is an editor of ACME Journal and Series Editor of the Critical Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean Book Series at the University of Florida Press. He is the current President of the LASA PR Section. Drawing from the archival research conducted for my current book project, entitled Making Space for Empire: Colonial Elites, Whiteness, and the Planning of Modern Puerto Rico, 1930-1960, I will be developing a methodological guideline to help confront the archive of puertorriqueñidad. Understanding the silences, power dynamics, and dominant ideologies that have shaped official archives by and about Puerto Rico, my project seeks to develop a critical methodological approach to help current and future researchers wishing to develop alternative and critical histories of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and the diaspora.