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Breaking New Ground: The Adivasi Land Struggle in Kerala
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This article is published in Economic and Political Weekly.The article was published on 2002-03-09 and is currently open access. It has received 20 citations till now.read more
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Bondage in freedom : colonial plantations in southern India, c. 1797-1947
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Globalization and the plight of tribals: the case of kerala, india
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Managing assets and vulnerability contexts: vistas of gendered livelihoods of Adivasi women in South India
TL;DR: The authors argued that the ability to build on or manage livelihoods is largely gendered, often exacerbated through the nuanced working of socioeconomic forces as women's experiences of poverty should be located and deconstructed within the configuration of local, political, social, and economic forces.