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The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan (South Asia in Motion) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 33: South Asia in Motion

Rizvi, Mubbashir A.

 
9781503608092: The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan (South Asia in Motion)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1503608093 ISBN 13: 9781503608092
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly meant to improve living conditions for tenant farmers, the new system, instead, mobilized one of the largest, most successful land rights movements in South Asia-still active today.

In The Ethics of Staying, Mubbashir A. Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP). This group of Christian and Muslim tenant sharecroppers, against all odds, successfully resisted Pakistan military's bid to monetize state-owned land, making a powerful moral case for land rights by invoking local claims to land and a broader vision for subsistence rights. The case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, one that bridges literatures from subaltern studies, military and colonial power, and the language of claim-making. Rizvi also offers a glimpse of Pakistan that challenges its standard framing as a hub of radical militancy, by opening a window into to the everyday struggles that are often obscured in the West's terror discourse.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mubbashir A. Rizvi is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Georgetown University.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1503608093
ISBN 13 
9781503608092
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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