The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan

by Mubbashir A Rizvi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360876X
• ISBN13: 9781503608764
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"