The ethics of staying : social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan / Mubbashir A. Rizvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

South Asia in motion.

South Asia in motion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Political activity--Pakistan--Punjab.

Peasants.

Social movements--Pakistan--Punjab.

Social movements.

Civil-military relations--Pakistan--Punjab.

Civil-military relations.

Land tenure--Pakistan--Punjab.

Land tenure.

Land reform--Pakistan--Punjab.

Land reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503608771

1503608778

OCLC:

1112302297