All Outputs (5)

Axolotl soup: Hydrocoloniality, contested foodscapes, and plural values of nature (2025)
Journal Article
Astorga de Ita, D., Morales Valdelamar, G. A., Cadena Roa, A., & Balvanera, P. (online). Axolotl soup: Hydrocoloniality, contested foodscapes, and plural values of nature. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251361707

This paper explores the ways in which memories of food speak of environmental change in a lacustrine foodscape. We focus on the case of Xochimilco in southern Mexico City, given its environmental, historical, and cultural importance. By surveying Xoc... Read More about Axolotl soup: Hydrocoloniality, contested foodscapes, and plural values of nature.

Of ships and soundboxes: Contrapuntal explorations of hydrocoloniality and the materiality of music (2024)
Journal Article
Astorga de Ita, D. (2024). Of ships and soundboxes: Contrapuntal explorations of hydrocoloniality and the materiality of music. Geoforum, 157, Article 104156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104156

In this paper I explore the relation between music, (enviro)materiality, and coloniality by examining son Jarocho, the music of the Mexican region of Sotavento in southeast Mexico. This essay brings together geography, blue humanities, and ecomusicol... Read More about Of ships and soundboxes: Contrapuntal explorations of hydrocoloniality and the materiality of music.

Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures (2023)
Journal Article
Astorga de Ita, D. (2024). Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 56(3), 872-895. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12999

This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that son Jarocho music and its poetics counterpoint rac... Read More about Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures.

Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene (2023)
Journal Article
Astorga de Ita, D. (2023). Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene. Area, 55(4), 514-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12889

This paper considers the kitchen and the phenomenological values that emerge from it. In this text the kitchen is seen as a space of possibility within the context of the Capitalocene, from which new values and imaginations for a more sustainable fut... Read More about Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene.

Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes (2022)
Journal Article
Astorga de Ita, D. (2022). Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes. Geohumanities, 8(2), 435-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2022.2045208

This is a geopoetic exploration of riverine space through music. In this article, I build upon the nascent field of hydropoetics by approaching the space of rivers through musical ethnographic research. I draw upon post-colonial geopoetic approaches,... Read More about Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes.