'Natural' disasters and everyday lives : floods, climate justice and marginalisation in India
Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society. Proposing a fresh approach towards analysing the politics of disasters, climate change and climate justice, 'Natural' Disasters and Everyday Lives explore...
Saved in:
| Main Author | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2024.
|
| Series | Diverse perspectives on creating a fairer society
|
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781837978557 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781837978533 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
Cover
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000Ii 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | em-9781837978557 | ||
| 003 | UtOrBLW | ||
| 005 | 20240926141349.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr ||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 240926t20242024enk ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781837978557 |q (e-book) | ||
| 040 | |a UtOrBLW |b eng |e rda |c UtOrBLW | ||
| 043 | |a a-ii--- | ||
| 080 | |a 364.6 | ||
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 363.340954 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Roy, Suddhabrata Deb, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a 'Natural' disasters and everyday lives : |b floods, climate justice and marginalisation in India / |c authored by Suddhabrata Deb Roy (Finalist at the University of Otago, New Zealand). |
| 264 | 1 | |a Bingley, U.K. : |b Emerald Publishing Limited, |c 2024. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2024 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (208 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Diverse perspectives on creating a fairer society | |
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction Chapter 1. Disastrous outcomes of repressive monuments -- Chapter 2. The ravages of relief activities -- Chapter 3. Disaster capitalism and the omnipresent market -- Chapter 4. Disasters and everyday life on trial -- Chapter 5. Local politics, right to the city and 'natural' disasters -- Chapter 6. Towards a humanist politics of climate change. | |
| 520 | |a Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society. Proposing a fresh approach towards analysing the politics of disasters, climate change and climate justice, 'Natural' Disasters and Everyday Lives explores the relationship between citizens, the State and the society in the context of the Global South's highly underdeveloped areas. Drawing on both theoretical frameworks and lived experience, this is the first book to document the lives of people affected by floods in the Barak Valley, a flood prone area in Southern Assam, which is also one of the most underdeveloped regions of South Asia. Narrating the fear and perils of living in an underdeveloped area in India during natural disasters, Suddhabrata Deb Roy draws from interviews conducted in Silchar, the largest and most developed urban settlement in the Barak Valley, during the floods of 2022 - the worst flood in the region in over 100 years - and during 2024 to expose the processes through which the people of the region suffer from developmental negligence and socio-political apathy. Examining the intersections of natural disasters and marginality, the author relates Marx's ideas on humanism, nature, alienation and economic development to ideas around climate justice, marginalisation and urbanisation, taking into context the contradictions posed by factors such as class, caste, gender and race in highly underdeveloped regions in India. Recognising that these issues are addressed quite differently in the Global North, Deb Roy connects flooding in northeastern India to the context of the broader politics surrounding climate change and climate justice in the Global South, making this book important and powerful reading for countering today's climate emergency. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Natural disasters |z India. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Hazard mitigation |z India. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a elektronické knihy |7 fd186907 |2 czenas | |
| 655 | 9 | |a electronic books |2 eczenas | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |z 9781837978540 |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i PDF version: |z 9781837978533 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/9781837978533 |