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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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