Indigenist mobilization :confronting electoral communism and precarious livelihoods in post-reform Kerala
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TextSeries: DislocationsPublication details: Hyderabad Orient blackswan 2017Description: x, 289p. illustrations, mapsISBN: 9789386689061Subject(s): Indigenous peoples | Dalits | Agricultural laborers | Land reform | CommunismDDC classification: 323.15483 Summary: 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.
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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.
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