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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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
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