Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Luisa Steur (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-382-8 (ISBN)

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Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question through a detailed ethnographic study of the dynamics between the Communist party and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changing everyday working lives of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Luisa Steur is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. She is also Lead Editor of Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. Extending her work on indigenism in Kerala, she is now engaged in comparative research on racial inequality and anti-racist activism in Cuba.

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Acknowledgements 

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Research and Activism in, on, and Beyond a Capitalist World System

PART II: ADIVASINESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Chapter 1. The “Tribe” in World Time

Chapter 2. The importance of Being Adivasi

PART III: CONTENTION AND CONFLICT AT THE END OF A REFORMIST CYCLE

Chapter 3. Electoral Communism and Its Critics

Chapter 4. Widening Circles of Political Disidentification

PART IV: CONDITIONING INDIGENISM: THE "KERALA MODEL" IN CRISIS

Chapter 5. Salaried but Subaltern: On the Vulnerability of Social Mobility

Chapter 6. Adivasi Labor: Of Workers without Work

PART V: CONCLUSION

Chapter 7. The (Dis)Placements of Class

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Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Zusatzinfo	9 Maps; 9 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-382-8 / 1785333828
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-382-8 / 9781785333828
Zustand	Neuware