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

In Malate, a district of Manila, flooding is frequent occurrence. This paper draws on in-depth interviews with Malate inhabitants to approach urban floods as more than discrete disastrous episodes which interfere pre-existing normality. The employs Levebvrian conceptualisation rhythm and entrainment, while also offering reflections the limits its relevance global South cities. Theorised from point mutual constitution social-technical-natural relations infrastructures, on-going disruptive rhythms floodwater. We argue that floodwater can be glimpsed at intersections different yet interrelated infrastructures. focus infrastructures identified by research participants pertinent flood risk in Malate: drainage, waste management, mobility. By tracing spatial temporal infrastructurally mediated floods, this contributes scholarship situated hydrosocial everyday life.