Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

By Luisa Steur

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785333828
• ISBN13: 9781785333828
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"