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Damage and loss assessment is the first step towards the bringing the disaster affected community back to mainstream life. The asset is the deciding factor; hence those who do not have assets are normally excluded from compensation. In India many Dalit victims are forced to remain outside the purview of formal disaster rehabilitation. Also, the value of assets of such asset-less communities seldom figures in a damage and loss assessment, which prevents the community from attaining sustainable resiliencethus exposing them to cumulative vulnerability.

COVID-19-induced lockdown resulted into a differential impact and the most vulnerable among them are the labour. State is ineffective in preventing income and livelihood loss of the workers. Higher supply and lower wages resulted in a huge reserve labour force in developed and developing countries. The employer in a post-COVID economy is going to be highly selective and labour market also would be selective to labour. The labour is going to be free to move, however, the freedom of labour to move does not ensure better employability. This article explains about employability in the post-COVID economy.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of 'geographical, economic and vulnerable space' in disaster risk management. This article considers the life world of vulnerable labourers in a private plantation land as space. This space determines vulnerable labourers in a private plantation land, determining government interventions. This article is dependent on secondary data, informed discussion with local community members and media reports on community response to the post-landslide. Interviews with community members and secondary data have been analysed concerning the total perspicuity of spatial vulnerability. The focus of the space discussed in this article is the community's life world. Disaster displaces, kills and destroys economic resources, and it is common across the world. There are variations in the number of deaths and amount of economic loss depending on the structure and space in which a natural disaster happens. This article discusses a landslide in the private plantation land and attempts to demonstrate how the authority and the government intervened and how the spacial risk limits such government interventions? The landslide killed poor workers living in poor-quality labour settlements; however, the government and the plantation company tried various reasons to divert the attention from the spatial vulnerability prevalent in the area and cited heavy rains as the only reason. The article attempts to discuss this critical issue in the historical context of the plantation that evolved through the colonial period and labour control in the given space. The article offers a theoretical debate on space and provides critical insight into 'space and identity' in disaster risk and rehabilitation management.

Formal interventions are rationalized to be irreplaceable, especially with marginalized communities that are presumed to lack capacity. It is event centric and differ considerably from the community's experience of disaster risk and recovery within the everyday context. Thus, community engagement with multiple formal institutions that often fail to address recovery needs of the most marginalized, is inevitable. These contradictions lead to varied forms of community assertion towards addressing structural inequalities and injustices. In this paper we explore these contradictions by drawing from the work of scholars who recognize the limits of procedural justice and push for distributive justice, especially by focusing on grassroots processes using the lens of the politics of neo-liberalism and ontology of possibilities. Using a multi-sited instrumental case study approach the paper explores community's lived experiences, factors contributing to the persistence of structural inequality and injustice, and the alternate conception of justice and their assertions, in the disaster recovery context. The two case studies - Vistapit Mukti Vahini and Thayillam, inform an alternate theoretical conception of disaster recovery embedded in structural inequalities and injustices through the following three perspectives: Firstly how disaster risk and recovery emerge from historical and everyday lived reality of marginalized communities, their social relations and resulting material conditions; Secondly how challenging everyday social relations, processes and injustices is central to the community's alternate conception and assertion for disaster recovery; and finally how community assertion and recovery relies on the mobilization of vulnerability, which could mean being exposed and agentic at the same time.