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Data were gathered through document analysis and a qualitative approach based on interviews with national and local leaders and activists of NGOs and Dalit organizations. The main finding is that there are no second-generation social movements related to disasters in India, mainly in what concerns Dalit discrimination. The Disaster Management Act of 2005 reinforced the centralized and top-down nature of the Indian state concerning disasters. On the other hand, national Dalit organizations like National Confederation of Dalit and Adivasi Organisations (NACDAOR) and National Dalit Watch do not possess the expertise to alter the approach to disasters from a contingent and exceptional one to a more structured and long-term perspective.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>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.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1108\/s2040-726220160000018007","type":"book-chapter","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,13]],"date-time":"2017-09-13T07:22:36Z","timestamp":1505287356000},"page":"145-160","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Disaster Exceptionalism in India: The View from Below"],"prefix":"10.1108","author":[{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Manuel","family":"Mendes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"2025122917593186800_s2040-726220160000018007_5.bib8-1","volume-title":"Homo Sacer. Sovereign power and bare lifes","author":"Agamben","year":"1998"},{"key":"2025122917593186800_s2040-726220160000018007_5.bib8-2","unstructured":"ActionAid (2008). 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