Blurring belongings: navigating Indian and Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence in India.
This paper is based on empirical research on the discursive production and marginalisation of Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence and civil unrest in India. We examine the historical naming of the Adivasis in national and local discourses and the ways it is circumscribed contemporar...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 400 - 418 |
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Jul2024
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