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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 1

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      Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
      Publication Date: 10/8/2024
      ISBN13: 9781837978540, 978-1837978540
      ISBN10: 1837978549
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 1

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