“ We usually have a bit of flood once a week ”: conceptualising the infrastructural rhythms of urban floods in Malate, Manila

In Malate, a district of Manila, flooding is a frequent occurrence. This paper draws on in-depth with Malate inhabitants to approach urban floods as more than discrete disastrous episodes interfere with a pre-existing normality. The paper employs a Levebvrian conceptualisation of and entrainment, while also offering some reflections on the limits of its relevance to global cities. Theorised from Malate, urban floods can be understood in terms of the mutual of the social-technical-natural relations of urban infrastructures and the on-going rhythms of floodwater. We argue that the rhythms of floodwater are especially visible at the of different yet interrelated urban infrastructures. In the Malate context, we focus on the identified by research participants as pertinent to flood risk: drainage, domestic waste, and transport and mobility. By tracing the spatial intersections and temporal rhythms of mediated urban floods, this paper contributes to a growing body of research into the hydrosocial relations of everyday life.