1 From resistance to resilience: Media discourses on urban flood governance in Mexico Pia Rinne and Anja Nygren University of Helsinki Abstract This article examines the continuities and changes in newspaper coverage of urban flood governance in Tabasco, southeastern Mexico, where highly destructive floods have made flood risks a socially sensitive and politically contested public issue. The analysis draws upon post-Foucauldian critical discourse analysis, paying special attention to different actors’ discursive strategies to further their agendas amid the shifting forms of environmental governance. We argue that in recent years, discourses that promote integrated flood governance, based on cultural adaptation and social resilience instead of technological control, have become prominent in the media presentation of flood governance. These discourses endorse neoliberal views of flood governance as an issue of public-private co- governance and civil self-responsibility whilst being reluctant to consider flood risk from the perspective of the uneven distribution of vulnerabilities or as an issue of human rights. Keywords: flood governance, media discourses, Mexico, resilience, urban