Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

AvLuisa Steur

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:591 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Dislocations
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785333828

Utforska kategorier

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

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"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

Innehållsförteckning

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