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Author Rizvi, Mubbashir A. (Mubbashir Abbas), author.

Title The ethics of staying : social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan / Mubbashir A. Rizvi
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series South Asia in motion
South Asia in motion.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2019)
Subject Peasants -- Political activity -- Pakistan -- Punjab
Land tenure -- Pakistan -- Punjab
Land reform -- Pakistan -- Punjab
Social movements -- Pakistan -- Punjab
Civil-military relations -- Pakistan -- Punjab
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Civil-military relations
Land reform
Land tenure
Peasants -- Political activity
Social movements
Pakistan -- Punjab
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018037789
ISBN 9781503608771
1503608778