Free Download Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala By Luisa Steur
2017 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 1785333836 | PDF | 5 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.