Deela Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 643487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deela Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deela |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5535-6608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Economy of Neoliberal Climate Governance: Environmental Conservation and Agrarian Struggle in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
The paper contributes to the ongoing debates on capitalist climate governance by drawing from a case study of Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Pakistan. The article underscores what has been largely ignored by economists, namely, that agroecological farming practices of small peasants offer useful insights for sustainable climate governance because they are rooted in a holistic conceptualization of nature that transcends the ontological separation between …
Threshold Concepts in Economics: A New Way to Teach the Role of Government in the Economy
This article offers new insights on the issue of student-centric pedagogy. First, it underscores the significance of threshold concepts in teaching radical political economics. Second, it offers a new way to empower students by giving them a role of co-producers of knowledge in the classroom. The framing of threshold concepts is an important topic, but it has been understudied in the context of radical political economics. To initiate a dialogue …
Reformulating theories of 'accumulation by dispossession: Contested accumulations through displacement' in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan
The reformulation of Harvey's seminal theory of 'accumulation by dispossession' (ABD) has sparked a robust debate within the heterodox political economy literature. On one hand, there's an argument that 'extra-economic' coercion should be the defining characteristic of ABD. On the other hand, Leitner and Sheppard have demonstrated that both forced evictions and consensual sales of land rights are integral processes of ABD. This paper contributes …
Political economy of the 'agrarian-urban frontier' in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation
The paper underscores the need to reconsider the ontological separation between processes of production and reproduction in the context of agrarian-urban interlinkages. It synthesizes 'value theory of inclusion' with a notion of 'unfair bargaining power' to offer a new understanding of processes of agrarian change in the context of Pakistan. Expansion of the agrarian-urban frontier, one of the defining characteristics of the contemporary agrarian…
Political economy of the ‘informal’ housing question: Institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state
In recent years, International Political Economy (IPE) scholars have increasingly turned their attention to cities. However, their primary focus has been on the role of a select few global ‘cities’ that regulate global flows of capital, goods, and services. Nonetheless, a significant gap in the IPE literature pertains to the limited exploration of how processes of neoliberal globalization are impacting and regulating the low-income ‘informal’ hou…
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons
Political Economy of Expulsionary Urbanization: Subsumption and Estrangement of Spaces in Pakistan
This article forwards the notion of “expulsionary urbanization” to explain processes of urban transformation in Pakistan against the backdrop of neoliberal regime of accumulation. The concept of expulsionary urbanization emphasizes that the production of new urban spaces is predicated on the theft of space, where one segment of the society appropriates space from another. On the one hand, expulsionary urbanization facilitates capital accumulation…
Articulated Imperialism in Pakistan: A Dialectic of ‘Strategic’ and ‘Dependency’ Fixes
The role of the internal political economic factors of the peripheral countries tends to remain largely muted in the analysis of imperialism. To redress this the paper put forwards an articulated conceptualization of imperialism in the context of the postcolonial state of Pakistan by underscoring the significance of domestic political economic factors in mediating and regulating an imperialist political settlement. Imperialist political settlemen…
Transforming a praetorian polity: The political economy of democratization in Pakistan
This paper analyzes the hegemonic role of the military vis-à-vis elected civilian governments in Pakistan from the vantage point of institutional political economy. Absence of “good governance” on the part of elected civilian governments is often depicted as the key underlying factor that allows the military to maintain its dominance over state and society. In sharp contrast, we argue that the emphasis on “good” governance as a pathway to democra…
Political Economy of Uneven State Spatiality: Conflict, Class, and Institutions in the Postcolonial State of Pakistan
A theory of the state presupposes the conceptual demarcation between "internal" and "external" actors to the state. In Resnick and Wolff's theory of the state, the contestation between "external" actors (classes/groups) and the conflict between internal actors (state institutions) remains underexplored. This essay expands Resnick and Wolff's analysis by drawing from a case study of the postcolonial state of Pakistan in which the conflict internal…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism: The dynamics of surplus, market, and spatiality
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Urban development by dispossession: Planetary urbanization and primitive accumulation
Structural changes in capitalism over the last four decades have facilitated the emergence of globalized sociospatial processes such as urbanization. Meanwhile, the scale of uneven sociospatial development has also been dramatically accentuated. We explore these issues by conceptualizing contemporary urbanization as a “planetary” process, but we also add mediating concepts to study changes on the ground. We illustrate how linkages between disposs…
Passing of a Great Heart
for Dennis Vincent Brutus South African Anti‐Apartheid Activist and Writer 28 November 1924–26 December 2009 We’ve come through a year, a year Unimaginable, hanging heavy like Summer grapes on the
Psychotherapy
Woman Take Note
Putting Women on the Agenda is published by Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1991, R45.43. harassment at the work places. They should educate their members who are predominantly women, to speak out against sexual harassment. Attention should be focused on union structures too, where such acts exist between leadership and the members. Moving on to a different theme, Helen Rees outlines in her article entitled 'Women and reproductive rights' that the sys…
Political Economy of Uneven State Spatiality: Conflict, Class, and Institutions in the Postcolonial State of Pakistan
A theory of the state presupposes the conceptual demarcation between "internal" and "external" actors to the state. In Resnick and Wolff's theory of the state, the contestation between "external" actors (classes/groups) and the conflict between internal actors (state institutions) remains underexplored. This essay expands Resnick and Wolff's analysis by drawing from a case study of the postcolonial state of Pakistan in which the conflict internal…
Urban development by dispossession: Planetary urbanization and primitive accumulation
Structural changes in capitalism over the last four decades have facilitated the emergence of globalized sociospatial processes such as urbanization. Meanwhile, the scale of uneven sociospatial development has also been dramatically accentuated. We explore these issues by conceptualizing contemporary urbanization as a “planetary” process, but we also add mediating concepts to study changes on the ground. We illustrate how linkages between disposs…
Political economy of the ‘informal’ housing question: Institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state
In recent years, International Political Economy (IPE) scholars have increasingly turned their attention to cities. However, their primary focus has been on the role of a select few global ‘cities’ that regulate global flows of capital, goods, and services. Nonetheless, a significant gap in the IPE literature pertains to the limited exploration of how processes of neoliberal globalization are impacting and regulating the low-income ‘informal’ hou…
Articulated Imperialism in Pakistan: A Dialectic of ‘Strategic’ and ‘Dependency’ Fixes
The role of the internal political economic factors of the peripheral countries tends to remain largely muted in the analysis of imperialism. To redress this the paper put forwards an articulated conceptualization of imperialism in the context of the postcolonial state of Pakistan by underscoring the significance of domestic political economic factors in mediating and regulating an imperialist political settlement. Imperialist political settlemen…
Transforming a praetorian polity: The political economy of democratization in Pakistan
This paper analyzes the hegemonic role of the military vis-à-vis elected civilian governments in Pakistan from the vantage point of institutional political economy. Absence of “good governance” on the part of elected civilian governments is often depicted as the key underlying factor that allows the military to maintain its dominance over state and society. In sharp contrast, we argue that the emphasis on “good” governance as a pathway to democra…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism: The dynamics of surplus, market, and spatiality
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Political economy of the 'agrarian-urban frontier' in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation
The paper underscores the need to reconsider the ontological separation between processes of production and reproduction in the context of agrarian-urban interlinkages. It synthesizes 'value theory of inclusion' with a notion of 'unfair bargaining power' to offer a new understanding of processes of agrarian change in the context of Pakistan. Expansion of the agrarian-urban frontier, one of the defining characteristics of the contemporary agrarian…
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons
Psychotherapy
Woman Take Note
Putting Women on the Agenda is published by Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1991, R45.43. harassment at the work places. They should educate their members who are predominantly women, to speak out against sexual harassment. Attention should be focused on union structures too, where such acts exist between leadership and the members. Moving on to a different theme, Helen Rees outlines in her article entitled 'Women and reproductive rights' that the sys…
Passing of a Great Heart
for Dennis Vincent Brutus South African Anti‐Apartheid Activist and Writer 28 November 1924–26 December 2009 We’ve come through a year, a year Unimaginable, hanging heavy like Summer grapes on the
Urban development by dispossession: Planetary urbanization and primitive accumulation
Structural changes in capitalism over the last four decades have facilitated the emergence of globalized sociospatial processes such as urbanization. Meanwhile, the scale of uneven sociospatial development has also been dramatically accentuated. We explore these issues by conceptualizing contemporary urbanization as a “planetary” process, but we also add mediating concepts to study changes on the ground. We illustrate how linkages between disposs…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism: The dynamics of surplus, market, and spatiality
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Political Economy of Uneven State Spatiality: Conflict, Class, and Institutions in the Postcolonial State of Pakistan
A theory of the state presupposes the conceptual demarcation between "internal" and "external" actors to the state. In Resnick and Wolff's theory of the state, the contestation between "external" actors (classes/groups) and the conflict between internal actors (state institutions) remains underexplored. This essay expands Resnick and Wolff's analysis by drawing from a case study of the postcolonial state of Pakistan in which the conflict internal…
Political Economy of Expulsionary Urbanization: Subsumption and Estrangement of Spaces in Pakistan
This article forwards the notion of “expulsionary urbanization” to explain processes of urban transformation in Pakistan against the backdrop of neoliberal regime of accumulation. The concept of expulsionary urbanization emphasizes that the production of new urban spaces is predicated on the theft of space, where one segment of the society appropriates space from another. On the one hand, expulsionary urbanization facilitates capital accumulation…
Articulated Imperialism in Pakistan: A Dialectic of ‘Strategic’ and ‘Dependency’ Fixes
The role of the internal political economic factors of the peripheral countries tends to remain largely muted in the analysis of imperialism. To redress this the paper put forwards an articulated conceptualization of imperialism in the context of the postcolonial state of Pakistan by underscoring the significance of domestic political economic factors in mediating and regulating an imperialist political settlement. Imperialist political settlemen…
Transforming a praetorian polity: The political economy of democratization in Pakistan
This paper analyzes the hegemonic role of the military vis-à-vis elected civilian governments in Pakistan from the vantage point of institutional political economy. Absence of “good governance” on the part of elected civilian governments is often depicted as the key underlying factor that allows the military to maintain its dominance over state and society. In sharp contrast, we argue that the emphasis on “good” governance as a pathway to democra…
Political economy of the ‘informal’ housing question: Institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state
In recent years, International Political Economy (IPE) scholars have increasingly turned their attention to cities. However, their primary focus has been on the role of a select few global ‘cities’ that regulate global flows of capital, goods, and services. Nonetheless, a significant gap in the IPE literature pertains to the limited exploration of how processes of neoliberal globalization are impacting and regulating the low-income ‘informal’ hou…
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons
Political economy of the 'agrarian-urban frontier' in Pakistan: Agrarian transformation, social reproduction and exploitation
The paper underscores the need to reconsider the ontological separation between processes of production and reproduction in the context of agrarian-urban interlinkages. It synthesizes 'value theory of inclusion' with a notion of 'unfair bargaining power' to offer a new understanding of processes of agrarian change in the context of Pakistan. Expansion of the agrarian-urban frontier, one of the defining characteristics of the contemporary agrarian…
Threshold Concepts in Economics: A New Way to Teach the Role of Government in the Economy
This article offers new insights on the issue of student-centric pedagogy. First, it underscores the significance of threshold concepts in teaching radical political economics. Second, it offers a new way to empower students by giving them a role of co-producers of knowledge in the classroom. The framing of threshold concepts is an important topic, but it has been understudied in the context of radical political economics. To initiate a dialogue …
Reformulating theories of 'accumulation by dispossession: Contested accumulations through displacement' in postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan
The reformulation of Harvey's seminal theory of 'accumulation by dispossession' (ABD) has sparked a robust debate within the heterodox political economy literature. On one hand, there's an argument that 'extra-economic' coercion should be the defining characteristic of ABD. On the other hand, Leitner and Sheppard have demonstrated that both forced evictions and consensual sales of land rights are integral processes of ABD. This paper contributes …
Political Economy of Neoliberal Climate Governance: Environmental Conservation and Agrarian Struggle in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
The paper contributes to the ongoing debates on capitalist climate governance by drawing from a case study of Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Pakistan. The article underscores what has been largely ignored by economists, namely, that agroecological farming practices of small peasants offer useful insights for sustainable climate governance because they are rooted in a holistic conceptualization of nature that transcends the ontological separation between …
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economic system (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Economic geography (4 works)