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Reading the Agrarian, National, and Ecological Questions in Contemporary Kisan Politics in Pakistan

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  • Hashim bin Rashid

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In the 2010s, the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) emerged in Punjab as a militant movement that brought together different fractions of agrarian producers against the IMF-proposed removal of electricity subsidies for agricultural tube wells. The article draws on fieldwork with the PKI in 2018–2019 to understand its trajectories since its contestation of one aspect of the agenda of structural reform. I argue that the analytical framework of “agrarian populism,†which has recently come back into use to understand agrarian politics, poses limitations in differentiating agrarian movements from each other. By focusing on how the PKI navigates the intersection between the agrarian, national, and ecological questions, the article shows how the movement has approached agrarian market reform, ecological crisis, and national development. Through this discussion, it undertakes a critical assessment of the PKI and situates it with longer histories of class differentiation, agrarian change, and ecological transformation.

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  • Hashim bin Rashid, 2024. "Reading the Agrarian, National, and Ecological Questions in Contemporary Kisan Politics in Pakistan," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 13(3), pages 295-316, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:13:y:2024:i:3:p:295-316
    DOI: 10.1177/22779760241261181
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    1. Edwin H. Clark, II & Mohammed Ghaffar, 1968. "Statistical Series on Private Tubewell Development in West Pakistan Purchase of Water from Private Tubewells," PIDE-Working Papers 1968:070, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
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