Mubbashir Rizvi - The Ethics of Staying
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In the tenth episode, I speak to Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University, on his recent book - The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan published by Stanford University Press in 2019. The book focuses on a major social movement in rural Pakistan - Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP) that resisted the Pakistani army\\u2019s efforts to liberalise a sharecropping system in rural Punjab. The move to push through a market-based cash contract farming system unleashed a social movement that deployed a moral politics invoking local claims to land which eventually prevailed. The conversation begins by understanding the AMP - origins, politics, actions and methods of mobilization before moving to unpack how and why the military sought to appropriate these farm lands. Next, Rizvi describes how the AMP fought their cause, using a form of politics that emphasized idioms of justice and subsistence. The discussion moves to understand the wider international context around the AMP and how that affected state-society relations in Pakistan before ending with some reflections on Rizvi\\u2019s fieldwork and the implications of the AMP for social movements in Pakistan today.
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\\nThe Ethics of Staying - https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26757
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