01702nam a2200277Ia 4500 MX-MdCICY 20260521091647.0 CICY B-18980 Governing beyond capacity: Engineering, banality, and the calibration of disaster in Mexico City American Ethnologist, 49(1), p.20-34, 2022 How are disasters made into routine, even banal parts of everyday life? In Mexico City the spatiality and temporality of disasters have become an object of dynamic governmental manipulation. The city's water engineers use a vast drainage tunnel system to strategically transform what would otherwise be catastrophic flooding of the city center into a slow-moving, spatially diffuse, and ultimately routine environmental problem for the poor on the urban periphery. Furthermore, to prevent unrest, the engineers deliberately modulate flooding within the thresholds of what populations can perceive and bear. This technopolitical work, which I call calibration, has emerged as a crucial means of governing beyond capacity, of maintaining social control even amid the unfolding of a disaster that has exceeded a government's capacity to prepare for or prevent. DISASTER GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE FLOODING WATER SPACE TEMPORALITY MEXICO Chahim, D. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQGfioYFISl953wMnjwJniNJ-muFrL4v/view?usp=drivesdk Para ver el documento ingresa a Google con tu cuenta: @cicy.edu.mx Loc REF1 250602s9999 xx |||||s2 |||| ||und|d 29061 29061 0 0 Loc 0 0 F1 CICY CICY RE 2025-06-25 0 B-18980 2025-06-25 16:24:22 2025-06-25 REF1