Okara Farms and Land Rights - Mubbashir A. Rizvi - Ethics of Staying - TPE #139

The Pakistan Experience

Mubbashir A. Rizvi was the Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Georgetown University and is the author of "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan". Mubasshir joins us on The Pakistan Experience to discuss Okara farms case study, land rights, social movements, Anjuman Muzareen Punjab, Farmers Movement and the state. Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1 https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperience https://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. He can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ Twitter.com/shehzad89 Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Smog and Air Quality 7:00 Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan 12:00 The moral argument for Land Rights 14:50 Ethnicity and social hierarchies 19:30 Distrust of the state 22:00 Resistance Movements 30:00 Land as a connection to several things 48:30 The System is the problem 55:00 Anti-Terrorism laws being used against social movements 1:01:00 Sub-altern 1:05:30 Nehru's land reforms 1:10:00 Landed Elite and Partition 1:16:30 Mubasshir not receiving tenure