Bastion-Making in Santurce: LaGoyco Takes on Grief and Recolonization
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| Published in: | Centro Journal vol. 37, no. 2 (Summer 2025), p. 83-112 |
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| 245 | 1 | |a Bastion-Making in Santurce: LaGoyco Takes on Grief and Recolonization | |
| 260 | |b Hunter College, Center for Puerto Rican Studies |c Summer 2025 | ||
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| 520 | 3 | |a Taller Comunidad LaGoyco is a community organization operating in the Machuchal sector of Santurce, a district of San Juan experiencing gentrification. In the years since Hurricane María the group has transformed a vacant school in the area into a vibrant community center, helping the neighborhood respond to a host of needs and challenges. In this essay I offer an account of the story of LaGoyco with a focus on the organization's spatial practices, showcasing their work as a case study in grassroots placemaking in a post-disaster context. I argue that the LaGoyco working group engages in a kind of placemaking I call bastion-making, in which a community facing threats on multiple flanks responds by forging sociospatial structures that afford protection on multiple fronts. Building on interviews and participant observation, I present a series of vignettes highlighting key "spatial" turning points in the story of the organization. I draw from environmental psychology and actor-network theory to conceptualize bastion-making as a spatial justice-oriented form of placemaking, using the story of LaGoyco as an example of space-conscious autogestión intent on defending the right to the city in the context of intersecting crises that characterized the period in which the project took shape. In the last section, I focus on the contribution of one of LaGoyco's main shapers, the late musician and activist Héctor "Tito" Matos, to offer a more personal reflection on the role of individual agency in placemaking, in a context where the threat of displacement is experienced as a form of recolonization. [Keywords: placemaking, bastion-making, autogestión, spatial justice, environmental psychology, recolonization] | |
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| 651 | 4 | |a United States--US | |
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| 653 | |a Community centers | ||
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| 653 | |a Community structure | ||
| 653 | |a Actor-network theory | ||
| 653 | |a Natural disasters | ||
| 653 | |a Working groups | ||
| 653 | |a Turning points | ||
| 653 | |a Environmental psychology | ||
| 653 | |a Hurricanes | ||
| 653 | |a Participant observation | ||
| 653 | |a Grief | ||
| 653 | |a Pandemics | ||
| 653 | |a Justice | ||
| 653 | |a Human agency | ||
| 653 | |a Vignettes | ||
| 653 | |a Psychology | ||
| 653 | |a Context | ||
| 653 | |a Community work | ||
| 653 | |a Disaster relief | ||
| 653 | |a Activism | ||
| 653 | |a Psychological theories | ||
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