Indigenist Mobilization

Download or read book Indigenist Mobilization written by Luisa Steur and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.