I’ve built the Urequio Infrastructure Archive PECE essay page, and through trial and error have at this stage build several other PECE essays that I’ve linked to in the primary Urequio Infrastructure Archive page. These are a page for videos of Urequio, photos of Urequio, and key infrastructure events (such as the building of the potable water system). I had a different design at the beginning of fieldwork with an essay for roads, for water, for found articles/artifacts on environmental issues in both sites, but found myself simplifying it, due partially to the availability of archival artifacts I’ve found and been provided.
A timeline of infrastructure projects in Urequio could be really interesting to develop. I have some of this information already through interviews, but for many keystone events I only have approximate dates or a year range. Additionally, I am still missing images and videos to encapsulate those events.
As I continue to gather more photos and images, I think one photo essay could be on current photos of Urequio’s natural wells, which are all named and had a use (most have dried up, some have been blocked up, and one or two are being restored). Another idea is for a photo essay representing irrigation of the agricultural fields, and another for the infrastructure for running water. Together, I think these can represent the multiplicity of Urequio’s water infrastructure histories.
I’ve used artifact bundles to gather newspaper articles and reports regarding environmental issues in Southern California, particularly Wilmington and Long Beach. At first, this was a separate PECE essay but I found the bundles a much better use of space & easier to visualize.
At the moment, I have been taking fieldnotes by hand but once I begin to transition away from regularly scheduled interviews & begin more deliberate and structured data analysis, I can see myself using these as a place to publically share some fieldnotes.
Yes - hosted at the Disaster STS Network https://disaster-sts-network.org/content/urequ%C3%ADo-infrastructure-arc...
The archive was designed to push against the idea of who can be considered an expert on infrastructure, on climate resilience, on climate change, etc. It’s designed to draw attention to and hold a record of “non-professional” labor and forms of expertise.
Community members in Urequio and Wilmington, CA; environmental justice activists or groups; researchers, activists or professionals working on questions of infrastructure
Research questions as formulated at start of fieldwork:
(1) How have differently positioned people, in Mexico and the United States, been involved in the development of Urequío’s water infrastructure?
(2) What processes, exchanges and communication infrastructures have supported water infrastructure innovation in Urequío?
(3) How do experience of environmental vulnerability in Southern California and Urequío motivate and shape Urequío’s infrastructure innovation?
(4) What kinds of knowledge infrastructure can support collaborative, community-scale environmental stewardship and infrastructure innovation now and in the future?