ABSTRACT
The final chapter restates that political and existential matters represent not two separate realms, but rather become entangled in the struggles over land. At stake in these land conflicts are the farmers’ ways of life but also the existence of the state, which requires continuous reinforcement in borderlands where state power is historically volatile and disputed. The chapter offers a discussion of the temporality of violence and explores the modalities of agency that go beyond popular forms of political mobilisation. It also addresses the two most important modes of living – belonging and becoming – that materialised in the struggles over land.
