Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala (Dislocations, 20)

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.

• | Author: Luisa Steur
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1785333828
• | ISBN-13: 9781785333828