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245 1 0 _aGoverning beyond capacity: Engineering, banality, and the calibration of disaster in Mexico City
490 0 _vAmerican Ethnologist, 49(1), p.20-34, 2022
520 3 _aHow 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.
650 1 4 _aDISASTER
650 1 4 _aGOVERNMENT
650 1 4 _aENGINEERING
650 1 4 _aINFRASTRUCTURE
650 1 4 _aFLOODING
650 1 4 _aWATER
650 1 4 _aSPACE
650 1 4 _aTEMPORALITY
650 1 4 _aMEXICO
700 1 2 _aChahim, D.
856 4 0 _uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQGfioYFISl953wMnjwJniNJ-muFrL4v/view?usp=drivesdk
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