The ethics of staying : social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan / Mubbashir A. Rizvi.
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TextSeries: South Asia in motionPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781503608771
- 1503608778
- Peasants -- Political activity -- Pakistan -- Punjab
- Land tenure -- Pakistan -- Punjab
- Land reform -- Pakistan -- Punjab
- Social movements -- Pakistan -- Punjab
- Civil-military relations -- Pakistan -- Punjab
- Paysannerie -- Activité politique -- Pākistān -- Pendjab
- Réforme agraire -- Pākistān -- Pendjab
- Mouvements sociaux -- Pākistān -- Pendjab
- Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire -- Pākistān -- Pendjab
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General
- Civil-military relations
- Land reform
- Land tenure
- Peasants -- Political activity
- Social movements
- Pakistan -- Punjab
- 333.3/154914 23
- HD1537.P18 R59 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : masters, not friends -- Politics as process in Okara military farms -- The afterlife of colonial infrastructure -- What remains buried under property? -- Movement and mobilization -- Solidarities, fault lines, and the scale of struggle -- Coda : the ethics of staying.
In Masters Not Friends, Mubbashir Rizvi lends a historical and ethnographic perspective to the rise of one of the largest, most successful land rights movements in South Asia, the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP), who, against all odds, successfully resisted the Pakistani military and made a case for their moral right to farmland. The case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, and bridge literatures from subaltern studies, military power, colonial technology and governance, and the language of claim-making. More broadly, Rizvi offers a glim.
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