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Deb Roy, S. (2024), "Index", ‘Natural’ Disasters and Everyday Lives: Floods, Climate Justice and Marginalisation in India (Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 183-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-853-320241008

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Copyright © 2024 Suddhabrata Deb Roy

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INDEX

Aadhar card

, 44

Adivasis

, 115

Anganwadi schemes

, 145

Anthropocene

, 104

Assam

, 69, 101

context of

, 141

Assam government, The

, 36

Assam Power Distribution Corporation Limited (APDCL)

, 30

Assam Tribune, The

, 13

Austerity

measures

, 101

policies

, 90

Autonomy

, 74

Barak River, The

, 3, 55

Barak Valley

, 7, 11, 13, 25, 35, 37, 50, 53, 61, 66, 69, 75–76, 82–83, 97, 103, 142

floods in

, 19

peculiarity of

, 9

towns of

, 16

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)

, 34, 75, 83, 114

Bhuj earthquake (2002)

, 125

Bhura

, 95n4

Big Capital

, 80

Biopolitical mechanisms

, 125

Black marketeers

, 19

Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction

, 74

Brahmaputra Valleys

, 11, 54

Buildings

, 88

Built environment

, 119

Capital’s routines

, 117–123

Capitalism

, 53, 66, 71, 76, 81, 89, 111, 117, 120, 142

Capitalist development

, 2, 73, 151

Capitalist models of urbanization

, 152

Capitalist society

, 92

Capitalist system

, 80

Catastrophe

, 21

Central government

, 75

Chennai floods

, 46

Chief Minister (CM)

, 69

Cities

, 102, 139, 150

City spaces

, 86

Climate change

, 1–2, 26, 103

Climate justice

, 162

Co-operative community

, 149

Commodities

, 64, 122

fetishism

, 64

form

, 64

Communicative mechanisms

, 125

Communitarian

, 76, 91

Communitarianism

, 135–139

Community, The

, 42

Community/communities

, 42, 49, 79, 81, 120–121, 160–161

capitalists

, 80

formation processes

, 150

leaders

, 63

Contemporary capitalism

, 17, 35, 52, 69, 79, 102, 104, 131–132

in India

, 87

Contemporary cities

, 123

Contemporary society

, 101, 119

Contemporary urban spaces

, 79

Contractualisation

, 29, 31

Corporate capital

, 128

Corporatism

, 102, 107–109

Corruption

, 98–102

Covid-19

, 21, 89, 115, 144

Critical point

, 109

CSOs

, 105, 128

Culture

, 121

Cyclones

, 11

Dalits

, 50, 97, 115

Dalmia Industries

, 74

De-politicised social characteristic

, 40

Democracy

, 39, 100

Democratic municipalism

, 137

Desperate acts of desperate classes

, 63–72

Developing societies

, 41

Development

, 26

Developmental negligence

, 69

Dialectical approach

, 123

Digital news media

, 15

Disaster capitalism

, 40–41, 64, 73, 96–97, 154

complex

, 77

corruption, and Peri-Urban India

, 98–102

emergence of petty-disaster capitalism

, 88–98

frameworks

, 64, 77

society of market

, 80–88

theory

, 88

Disaster communism

, 153, 162

Disaster Management Act

, 44

Disaster mitigation

, 83, 100

Disaster NGOs, growth of

, 104–111

Disasters

, 11, 21, 27, 39, 55, 63, 68, 76, 97, 119, 153

capital’s routines and ‘natural’ disasters

, 117–123

disaster-struck economy

, 70

growth of disaster NGOs

, 104–111

in India

, 123

monumental amalgamations during

, 42–52

objectification of lives

, 111–117

and Right to the City

, 139–150

Disastrous outcomes of repressive monuments

misplaced trusts and state

, 36–42

monumental amalgamations during disasters

, 42–52

neoliberal weakening of state

, 26–36

District Disaster Management Authority of Cachar (DDMAC)

, 6, 46, 111, 136, 142, 144

Earthquakes

, 11, 118

Ecological crisis

, 162

Ecological destructiveness

, 151

Ecology

, 112

Economic development

, 98

Ecosocialism

, 83

Egalitarian reimagination

, 125

Electricity

, 135

sector in Assam

, 30

Ethnically diverse communities

, 119

Ethno-nationalism

, 12

Event

, 110n3

Everyday life

, 32, 37, 68, 92

Exceptionalism of capitalism in India

, 96

Exclusion of marginalised individuals

, 37

Extra-parliamentary mechanisms

, 140

Facebook

, 133

Fear

, 12

Fear of missing out (FOMO)

, 152

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

, 77

Flooding in Assam

, 7

Floodplains

, 10n9

Floods

, 1–2, 4–5, 11, 16, 25, 39, 51, 53, 68, 85, 118, 131, 149–151

in Barak Valley

, 79

flood-related control measures in Assam

, 20

Jihad

, 114

Floods in Silchar (2022)

, 110

Full-fledged disaster capitalism

, 41

Ganges River Dolphin

, 14

Global capitalism

, 142

Global South

, 1, 25, 52

Global warming

, 2

Grand claims

, 84

Gross state domestic product (GSDP)

, 2

Harvey, David

, 92, 101

Hierarchical segregation

, 116

High developmental index

, 76

Human society

, 26, 61, 103–104, 151, 156

Humanity

, 21

Hyper-atomisation

, 85

Hyper-atomised social existence

, 70

Hyper-vanguardist model of Indian state

, 49

Inclusion of local administrative bodies

, 125

India

, 97, 119

Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)

, 8

Indian National Congress

, 83

Industrialisation

, 79

Inequality, disruptions to life and sustenance of

, 72–78

Informal workers

, 50

Informational technology

, 153

Institutions

, 91, 123

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)

, 145

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, The (IPCC)

, 151

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

, 1

Internet

, 135

Islamophobia, The

, 114

Just Transition

, 142, 156

Justice

, 40

Klein, Naomi

, 41, 65, 76

Labelling process functions

, 62

Lefebvre, Henri

, 79, 84, 101, 129

Left-wing egalitarian political activism

, 61

Libertarian municipalism

, 137

Liquid Modernity

, 140n7

Livelihoods

, 67

Local administrative egalitarianism

, 126

Local administrative unit

, 126

Local bodies

, 121

Local governance

, 125, 143–144, 147, 160

Local politics

, 127, 143

Localism and NGOs

, 127–135

Mainstream disaster capitalism

, 155

Marginalisation of local politics

, 129

Marginalised communities

, 35, 95

Marginalised people

, 82

of Silchar

, 44

Marginalised populace

, 119

Marginality

, 9, 52

Market

, 7, 29, 40

Marx, Karl

, 13, 20, 120, 163

Material security

, 141

Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA)

, 48

Member of Parliament (MP)

, 48

Metropolitan spaces

, 129

Middle class

, 33–34

Misplaced trusts and State

, 36–42

Mobile connectivity systems

, 135

Monumental amalgamations during disasters

, 42–52

Monumentality

, 118

Monuments

, 91

Mortality rates in India

, 116

Multidimensional poverty

, 10

Mundane activities

, 84

Municipal resources

, 135

Municipal socialism

, 126, 126n1, 137, 143, 159

Municipalism

, 135–139

Municipalities

, 126, 147

Muslim populace, The

, 114

Muslims

, 97, 113, 115

in contemporary India

, 114

National Disaster Management Authority, The (NDMA)

, 44, 58, 144

Natural disasters

, 2, 4, 12, 17, 21–22, 25–26, 29, 42, 51, 56, 68, 72, 87, 102, 107, 111, 117–123, 125, 127, 131, 135–139, 151, 156

Natural law of capitalism

, 80

Neoliberal capitalism

, 32, 53, 81–82, 85, 144

Neoliberal disaster capitalism

, 58

Neoliberal intervention

, 137

Neoliberal society

, 97

Neoliberal weakening of state

, 26–36

Neoliberalism

, 28–29, 32, 36, 41, 44, 48–49, 70, 75, 77, 96, 101, 104, 153

New public management techniques (NPM techniques)

, 104

Non-exploitative community

, 149

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

, 33–34, 104, 126–135

Normal capitalism

, 65

Normalisation bias

, 138

Objectification of lives

, 111–117

Omnipresent market

disaster capitalism, corruption, and Peri-Urban India

, 98–102

emergence of petty-disaster capitalism

, 88–98

society of market

, 80–88

Ontological security

, 121, 141

Other backward class (OBC)

, 97

Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (OXFAM)

, 1

Parliamentary mechanisms

, 140

PDS

, 106

Peri-Urban India

, 98–102

Petty-disaster capitalism

, 98, 117

emergence of

, 88–98

Philanthropic approaches

, 155

Political change

, 83

Posadas

, 108, 159

Posadism

, 162

Post-floods waste

, 149

Predictive model

, 3

Private exchange-based economy

, 66

Private healthcare

, 31

Private space of individuals

, 138

Productivity

, 109, 120

Project Suraksha

, 46

Psychological security

, 85, 133

Public health

, 98, 104

Public housing

, 157

Public sector

, 29, 35, 39, 140

Radical change

, 70

Radical ecological movement

, 159

Radical organizations

, 111

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)

, 114

Ravages of relief activities

desperate acts of desperate classes

, 63–72

disruptions to life and sustenance of inequality

, 72–78

struggles within relief camps

, 55–63

Rehabilitation camps

, 58

Reliance Group

, 74

Relief camps

, 90, 99, 139

in flood-affected areas

, 57

in Silchar

, 61

struggles within

, 55–63

Relief shelters

, 58

Relief-camp dwellers

, 99

Remal (cyclone)

, 9

‘Right to City’ concept

, 101–102

disasters and

, 139–150

Rivers

, 14, 103

Routines

, 86, 120, 129

Schedules

, 85, 120

Sentinel, The

, 13

Shibbari dam

, 115

Sick Industrial Companies Act (1985)

, 74

Silchar

, 25

Silchar floods (2022)

, 13, 38, 46, 87, 105, 107

Slums

, 93, 98

Small entrepreneurs

, 19

Small towns

, 76

Social capital

, 119, 152n2

Social cohesion

, 109, 140

Social conflicts

, 140

Social groups

, 120

Social inequalities

, 159

Social justice-based governmental set-up

, 111

Social justice-oriented housing policy

, 57

Social media

, 119, 133

Social practices

, 84, 123

Social theory

, 103

Social totality

, 157

Social transformation

, 43

Socialism

, 66

Society

, 21, 82, 102

of market

, 80–88

Socio-political landscape in Assam

, 10

South of the Global South (SGS)

, 25, 66, 91, 109, 128, 159

Spectacle

, 68, 101, 117

State

, 42, 49

misplaced trusts and

, 36–42

State Government

, 126

Sub-nationalism

, 12

Sundarbans

, 53n1

Tendencies

, 137, 162

Tilas

, 17

Total human phenomenon

, 158

Towns

, 2, 137

Underdevelopment

, 37–38

Uneven development concept

, 2, 73–74

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

, 1

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, The (UN-ISDR)

, 1

Urban built environment

, 2

Urban centres

, 101

Urban culture

, 122

Urban local bodies (ULBs)

, 47, 80, 126–127, 137

Urban marginality

, 79

Urban planning

, 93

Urban spaces

, 2, 148

Urbanisation

, 79, 135

in India

, 56

processes in Barak Valley

, 17

Water stocking

, 62

Weather

, 3, 44

WhatsApp

, 133

Workers

, 30, 39, 50, 113

Working class

, 33–34, 83