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The Ethics of Staying
- Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
Engelsk Hardback
The Ethics of Staying
- Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781503608092
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503608093
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Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2019
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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