Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene

This paper considers the kitchen and phenomenological values that emerge from it. In this text is seen as a space of possibility within context Capitalocene, which new imaginations for more sustainable future may emerge. Drawing upon ecofeminist critiques feminist food studies, building phenomenologies Gaston Bachelard Yi-Fu Tuan, exploration surveys how intimacy, memory, care, relation endeavours what these notions mean Capitalocenic world. These theoretics are intertwined with ethnographic materials on foodscapes foodways gathered in Xochimilco, Mexico City. From this, radical conceptualisations everyday spread into spaces, while bringing together subjects environmental issues. I propose notion antiromantic an approach emerging kitchen's history gendered contested space, way to its labours midst our current ecological crises; can be understood inhabited political transformations.