Infrastructural events? Flood disaster, narratives and framing under hazardous urbanisation

‘The river was moved too close to my house!’ declared a soon-to-be-displaced resident following flood disaster in Brazil. Infrastructural engineering decades earlier had changed the river's course and led flooding of his home, yet state now blamed rainstorm for causing disaster. The narrative natural event provided pretext urban governance based around evictions further rounds infrastructural engineering, nominally aimed at pre-empting dangerous climate future. paper takes circumstances this case trigger conceptual discussion on event, narratives, promise infrastructures mitigate alarming futures. I draw political ecology, sociology recent social studies infrastructure, while also questioning understandings eventful nature post-human turn. Tackling risk, it is argued, depends reframing disasters as events. This reflexive process that challenges how risks are produced through capitalist urbanisation, with aim making longer temporality change. A focus politicised reveals disrupts dominant hazard narratives remain integral hazardous expansion.