Luisa Steur

Indigenist Mobilization (eBook, ePUB)

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785333835
• Artikelnr.: 48567506

Autorenporträt

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