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Indigenist mobilization :confronting electoral communism and precarious livelihoods in post-reform Kerala

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...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Steur, Luisa
Format: Printed Book
Udgivet: Hyderabad Orient blackswan 2017
Serier:Dislocations ;
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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.
Fysisk beskrivelse:x, 289p. illustrations, maps ;
ISBN:9789386689061