Title page 1; Series blurb; Title page 2; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Map; Acknowledgments; 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 MobilityChapter 6. Adivasi Labor: Of Workers without Work; Part V. Conclusion; Chapter 7. The (Dis)Placements of Class; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Series page
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2017)
