Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-382-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steur, Luisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 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

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steur, Luisa
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.