Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily ways in which these elites build wealth and inequality.
This book explores the fusion of the business and political elites to consolidate wealth and power, using a complex of opaque political, marital, and social strategies.
‘Big Capital in an Unequal World’ draws on 14 months of ethnographic research with elite businessmen, politicians, their families, senior bureaucrats and regulators in Pakistan. The author will launch this book published by Liberty Books in Pakistan in February 2023.
About the Author
Dr Rosita Armytage is an anthropologist, policy advisor, and governance specialist working in Asia over the past two decades. She has lived and worked in Pakistan for several years and is currently advising the Australian Government in Cambodia. She holds a PhD in political anthropology from the Australian National University (ANU), and a degree in Arab and Islamic Studies.
About the Moderator
Dr. Simbal Khan is a Conflict Prevention and Peace-building specialist/security analyst specializing in South-Central Asian region. She is Currently working as a consultant for UNDP on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and Local Governance Program. Previously she has had a long engagement with conflict prevention programs, analysis, CVE, de-radicalization and security/political risk analysis in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. She has served as Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as Carnegie South Asia Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. She has also been a staff member of key foreign policy platforms and think tanks in Pakistan such as Institute of Strategic Studies, IPRI, and CSIS.
Dr. Khan is a specialist on Afghanistan’s security and trans-border militant movements in the regional space. For the last ten years her work has focused on strengthening community and societal resilience against conflict in Pakistan and the broader South-Central Asian region. She had also engaged in Track 1 and Track 11 peace building dialogues on Afghanistan and engaged in providing high level expert input into International and national peace building initiatives on Afghanistan. She is a published author on regional security issues and a frequent contributor to international print and electronic media.