Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-05-19
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt591 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDislocations
Antal sidor302
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785333828

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Marxism och kommunism inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

List of Figures Maps 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 dis-identification 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 Glossary Bibliography Index

"This is a wonderfully written piece that will raise some eyebrows and generate some wonderful debates. The critique of indigenist "identity" politics has been sorely needed for a long time, and this work helps us assess that context in a more robust and critical fashion without falling into a lackluster, celebratory mode of championing indigenous politics on a pure level of 'identity' and 'rights'." * Ananthakrishnan Aiyer, University of Michigan