Disaster Exceptionalism in India: The View from Below
Recovering from Catastrophic Disaster in Asia
ISBN: 978-1-78635-296-5, eISBN: 978-1-78635-295-8
ISSN: 2040-7262
Publication date: 13 September 2017
Abstract
The chapter shows how extreme events and permanent hazardous situations tend to increase the legitimacy of state intervention, often involving the suspension of social and economic norms, creating a state of exception, which indicates the inevitable presence of the state. The abyssal line that separates those individuals and groups that are integrated from those defined as disposable and invisible crosses through both the Global South and the little colonies of the North, reinforcing the logic of states that want to be bigger and stronger than their own citizens.
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Acknowledgments
This chapter has been written as part of the research project ALICE—Strange Mirrors, Unexpected Lessons, financed by the European Research Council, and coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Citation
Mendes, J.M. (2017), "Disaster Exceptionalism in India: The View from Below", Recovering from Catastrophic Disaster in Asia (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 18), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 145-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-726220160000018007
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