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Lerche, Jens and Alpa, Shah (2018) 'Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (5-6). pp. 927-949.

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Abstract

Neoliberal globalisation has resulted in the bypassing of agrarian transition-led industrialisation and classic proletarianisation, and class-for-itself class struggles are rare. Drawing on analyses of class relations, racism and other forms of social oppression, this contribution explores how processes of ‘conjugated oppression’ are central to the spread of contemporary capitalism. The focus is on India and on how the co-constitution of class relations and social oppression based on caste, tribe, gender and region is entrenching Dalits and Adivasis at the bottom of social and economic hierarchies. The analysis has deep-seated consequences for how we think about political struggles, in this case ones that foreground caste and tribe and focus on both labour and land.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: class, caste, tribe, India, racism, conjugated oppression, capitalism
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 03066150
Copyright Statement: © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217
Date Deposited: 02 Nov 2018 11:43
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/29906
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council, European Union

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