Are the emotions an engine of political action? Flooding in the Valley of Chalco as socio- environmental conflictsIn this text we discuss about fear facing disaster, around what happened in several floods in Valle de Chalco, municipality of the metropolis of Mexico. From a socio-anthropological posture in this article we aim to study the environmental conflict as a mélange of intersubjectivities to find a type of potential and emerging political action. Through the reflection on the liquid fear (BAUMAN, 2006) and on a perspective of conflict analysis called the imagined water community (DE ALBA; SALAZAR; MARTIN, 2015) attempts to contribute to the current debate on water phenomena of contemporary metropolis
Key words:
Fear; Floodings; Chalco