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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Strümpell, Christian |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant |
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Modern Asian Studies |
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56(5), Sep, 2022: p.1691-1714 |
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In the eastern Indian steel town of Rourkela, Adivasis are widely stereotyped as uneducated, jangli (‘wild’), and drinkers, and they are therefore held to make for a special type of worker. Their Adivasi ‘nature’ makes them an ideal fit for facing the heat, dust, and fumes in the so-called ‘hot shops’ of the local public-sector steel plant. It is also said that Adivasis are, in fact, not well suited for the permanent and well-paid jobs the public-sector steel plant provides, and that they are better employed as contract workers who are paid little and by the day, and on whom the industry has increasingly relied since the 1970s. Critically engaging with Bourgois’ concept of ‘conjugated oppression’, I will show how these casteist stereotypes entrench the class position of Adivasis in the local steel industry, but also how this position has nevertheless changed over time—for some for the better, for many for the worse. Furthermore, although this polarization is driven by larger political economic changes it is exacerbated by the ways in which the better-off among the stereotyped Adivasi workers respond to them. This calls, I argue, for close attention to be given to the historical dynamics in the relations between class and caste (or ‘tribe’) and in the struggles related to them.- Reproduced |
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Adivasis, Labour, Work, Stereotyping, Educational, Class, Conjugated oppression. |
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Modern Asian Studies |
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TRIBES - INDIA |
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Articles |
