Since the end of November, hundreds of thousands of farmers, mostly from the agricultural states of Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting the passing of three new laws passed by parliament and supported by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Farmers are afraid the new laws will make their crops vulnerable to larger corporations without government intervention. This panel focused on understanding the protests themselves, the new three laws, and the global repercussions of both.

SPEAKERS:
Bikrum Gill is a scholar of International Political Economy. He an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, where he is also core faculty in the ASPECT doctoral program. His research is generally centered on the global intersections of political economy, race, and ecology, and he explores these themes more specifically as they bear upon issues of agriculture and development, the climate crisis, and decolonization. His work has appeared in journals such as Environment and Planning 'A', Politics, and Globalizations.

Navyug Gill is a scholar of modern South Asia and global history. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. His research explores broad questions of agrarian change, labor history, caste politics, postcolonial critique and global capitalism. His academic and popular writings have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Outlook, Al Jazeera, Law and Political Economy Project, Borderlines and Trolley Times.

Natasha Behl is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Dr. Behl completed her doctorate in political science at University of California, Los Angeles. She explains why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and identifies potential ways to create more egalitarian relations in liberal democracies and in academia. Dr. Behl’s book, Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is published with Oxford University Press. Her research is published in leading journals like PS: Political Science and Politics, Feminist Formations, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Space & Polity, and Journal of Narrative Politics. She was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU where she teaches Global Feminisms, Feminist Action Research, Navigating Academia as a Raced and Gendered Space, Comparative Politics, Politics of India, and Everyday Forms of Political Resistance. She has also written for The Washington Post and Public Seminar.

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