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999			_c58964 _d58964
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082	0	0	_a323.15483 _bSTE/I
100	1		_aSteur, Luisa
245	1	0	_aIndigenist mobilization :confronting electoral communism and precarious livelihoods in post-reform Kerala
260			_aHyderabad _bOrient blackswan _c2017
300			_ax, 289p. _billustrations, maps ;
490	0		_aDislocations ;
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aIndigenous peoples
650		0	_aDalits
650		0	_aAgricultural laborers
650		0	_aLand reform
650		0	_aCommunism
942			_cBK