“…For example, Rivera (2020) explored disaster colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean and argues racialised violence and dispossession, even through disaster responses, reproduces coloniality and vulnerability throughout marginalised communities. Social movements, particularly peasant and Indigenous led, have consistently called attention to the colonial and neocolonial roots of vulnerability such as dispossession, depeasantisation, proletarianisation, and categorising subjects into hierarchies based on race or other attributes (Borras et al 2012;Löf 2013;Perry 2021;Sealey-Huggins 2018). These historical factors, among others, create the socio-ecological conditions that climate change, as a risk amplifier, interacts with, leading to losses and damages (Raju, Boyd and Otto 2022;Roberts and Pelling 2020;Wrathall et al 2015).…”