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Nilsen, A. G. (2013). Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India: Democratizing the Local State. Critical Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.), 39(4), 615–633. Added by: Prashanth NS (08/06/2023, 22:00) |
Resource type: Journal Article ID no. (ISBN etc.): 8969205 BibTeX citation key: Nilsen2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: Health Keywords: ADIVASIS, democracy, India, Political doctrines, poverty, resistance, social movements, Social psychology, state, subalternity Creators: Nilsen Collection: Critical Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.) |
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Abstract |
This article addresses the political aspects of the structural marginalization of Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) in India. Relating to critical debates about the changing nature of state–society relations in India, the article assesses the argument that the best way for social movements in India to advance their oppositional projects is to harness the state to their attempts to deepen democracy and advance subaltern emancipation. The trajectories of two Adivasi movements in western Madhya Pradesh are analysed, and I discuss the conceptual and political lessons that can be learnt from these case studies in terms of the relationship between subaltern politics and state power in contemporary India. Theoretically grounded in Marxian state theory, the article puts forward the argument that it is necessary to move beyond both anti-statism and state-centrism in order to develop a politically enabling engagement with contemporary Adivasi mobilization in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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