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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico

Hector Becerril et al.

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers2026https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70056article
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The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective‐material variations through which Ingrid‐and‐Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery .

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@article{hector2026,
  title        = {{The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico}},
  author       = {Hector Becerril et al.},
  journal      = {Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70056},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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