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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.