Indigenist Mobilization : : Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala / / Luisa Steur.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Steur, Luisa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; MAP --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; 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 --; Chapter 5 – SALARIED BUT SUBALTERN: ON THE VULNERABILITY OF SOCIAL MOBILITY --; Chapter 6 – ADIVASI LABOR: OF WORKERS WITHOUT WORK --; Chapter 7 – THE (DIS)PLACEMENTS OF CLASS --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785333835; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785333835?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Luisa Steur.

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.