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Politics of Disaster Risk Distribution

Monday, December 8, 2025

The Sumatra floods reveal the combined dangers of the human-induced climate crisis. The impact triggers new inequality.

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THE flash floods that struck several provinces in Sumatra in late November 2025 demand more than an emergency empathy. They call for change rooted in radical reflection, one capable of rebuilding the relationship between the state, the production of risk, and the inequality.

The disaster in Sumatra was not merely a hydrometeorological event. It was the embodiment of what German sociologist Ulrich Beck described as manufactured risks—hazard

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