Free Download Luisa Steur, "Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1785333828 | PDF | pages: 301 | 4.4 mb
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.