Adivasi Mobilisation

Steur, Luisa

doi:10.1177/097317410900400103

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“…The Adivasis are socially excluded and the mainstream society considers the social standing of the Adivasis at the lowest strata along with the Dalits (Steur, 2009). They are stereotyped as primitive and uncivilized.…”

Section: The Stigma Of Being An Adivasimentioning

confidence: 99%

Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

George

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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The development experience of the state of Kerala in southwest India is based generally on democratic principles of equality and popular participation. This article focuses on the lives of the Adivasi 1 people of Attapadi in the Palakkad district of Kerala. It argues that the state of Kerala largely treats the Adivasis as secondary citizens and ignores their right to be socially and economically empowered. The state of Kerala takes pride in its positive ranking on human development and social progress indexes but has not done enough to stop Adivasi infants from dying of malnutrition, and Adivasis’ demands for land rights have been disregarded. As a result, they are forced to live obscure lives in poverty and generally unable to influence their sociopolitical sphere.

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Section: The Stigma Of Being An Adivasimentioning

confidence: 99%

Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

George

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…This struggle was crushed by the state police. These agitations have been argued as having made the ‘Adivasi’ a strong political identity in Kerala (Steur, 2009, 2017). The resistance was a flashpoint that sent a clear message of defiance to the authorities and the upper castes.…”

Section: Resistance and Counter‐resistancementioning

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Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India

Chemmencheri

2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper looks at a case of rural‐to‐rural movement of agrarian capital in southern India and the ways in which capital–labour relations are reworked to maintain oppressive forms of exploitation. Faced with an agrarian crisis, capitalist farmers from affluent communities of Wayanad, Kerala, take large tracts of land for lease in the neighbouring state of Karnataka and grow ginger based on price speculation. Landless Adivasis from Wayanad have served as labourers on these ginger farmlands for the past three decades. Recently, farmers have shifted to employing labourers from a Scheduled Caste (SC) from Karnataka. The change happened not just because of the lower wages the SC labourers were willing to work for but also because of the farmers' inclination to move away from Adivasis who have been resisting the poor working conditions on the farm. The story resonates with the broader dynamics of agrarian–labour relations amidst capitalist expansion and highlights the centrality of socio‐political factors at play.

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“…The ST respondents in Wayanad identified and discussed their forced removal from the forest several decades ago as a serious negative event (K. Kumar, Singh, & Kerr, 2015). While only the GEN1 participant remembered this event clearly, the level of trauma this experience created in these individuals, households and communities was very high (Steur, 2009).…”

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Intergenerational perceptions of household wellbeing in India’s Western and Eastern Ghats

Pattison‐Williams

Haggar

Morton

2018

World Development Perspectives

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India is home to the largest number of people living in poverty in the world. To inform poverty alleviation strategies, we sought local insights on wellbeing trajectories from three generations of respondents in three communities in the Western and Eastern Ghats.An integrated thematic analysis was carried out using qualitative information from focus group discussions (FGDs) and a survey instrument. Overall, we found most households had a positive perspective regarding their wellbeing over time; when divided into research locations, the Odisha site (Jeypore) was the most optimistic, the Kerala site (Wayanad) had no consensus position, and the Tamil Nadu site (Kolli Hills) was most pessimistic. Scheduled tribe (ST) and non-ST households were similar in their wellbeing perceptions despite the ongoing social and economic marginalization of ST households. Common negative events experienced were health (death or alcoholism) and climate disasters (drought or flooding), and common positive events were asset inheritance or government schemes. An important insight was changing importance of events between generations: elder generations valued labour migration, interim generations valued asset inheritance, and the current generation valued government schemes. We conclude that significant events play a major role in wellbeing perceptions among these communities, and understanding the evolving forms of significant events between generations can provide insights towards designing effective poverty alleviation strategies for the future.

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Adivasi Mobilisation

Cited by 35 publications

References 13 publications

Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

Kerala Development and the Attapadi Adivasi

Adivasi migrant labour and agrarian capitalism in southern India

Intergenerational perceptions of household wellbeing in India’s Western and Eastern Ghats

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