Rosita Armytage

Anthropologist. Laptop wallah. Author of 'Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan”

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

Spotted! Big Capital in an Unequal World is now on the shelves at @LibertyBooks_ in Pakistan and also online: https://t.co/Xg9Z84vmtA

[Vishesh Harnal @Eng_Leash_Guy]

@PakRosi @LibertyBooks_ Saw you om the pakistan experience, loved it.
Loved the book.
Kudos mam!

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

@hilariousharnal @LibertyBooks_ Thank you so much, Vinesh 🙏

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

Spotted! Big Capital in an Unequal World is now on the shelves at @LibertyBooks_ in Pakistan and also online: https://t.co/Xg9Z84vmtA

[Stratheia @stratheia]

Book Review – Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

"The book draws on interviews influential figures in #Pakistan. It provides a nuanced look at the micro-politics of wealth & how it shapes people’s lives."
@PakRosi

https://t.co/KWntISDOuk

[Sania Akram Khan @SaniaAKhan57]

Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan by Rosita Armytage
An intriguing insight into the lives of 'elite' and deeply engrained methods of elite capture and gatekeeping in the country.
@PakRosi

[SenatorSherryRehman @sherryrehman]

This says it all. No reduction in emissions will happen to meet Paris goals with these entrenched mindsets. Countries like Pakistan will continue to hurtle into a red shadow of heat-induced changes to everything while not contributing to the 🔥 burn. The Earth 🌍 will become a red planet on current trajectories of 2.8 C not 1.5 C if this continues

[BerghahnAnthropology @BerghahnAnthro]

OUTSIDERS: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea by Markus Bell (@mpsbell) will be published this July in #paperback! Sign up to publication alerts here: https://t.co/hMdwSyjSv3

[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

Once you scratch the surface of the Taliban's propaganda, there is nothing at all "traditional" or "national" about their movement.

The Taliban is an utterly modern movement, mostly based on 20th-century political ideas and foreign religious teachings.

1/11

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

@lailaprajani @AyazAQureshi I strongly recommend @sameen_mohsin’s excellent work on bureaucrats, political parties and elite capture.

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

"Pakistani nationals were also kept below deck, with crew members maltreating them when they appeared in search of fresh water or tried to escape" this story makes you want to weep https://t.co/EawGam2DF2

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

Rosita Armytage’s ‘Big Capital in an Unequal World: the Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan’ is worth reading to learn about the specific behaviour of Pakistan’s elites in terms of consolidating wealth & keeping others out - available in local bookstores in paperback:

[Hassan Javid 🍉 @HassanJavid_]

Championing 'the cause of civil liberties' is precisely why he's been abducted.

The military has never tolerated dissent. What it wants is the freedom to act with impunity against all who speak against it. The victims may change, the logic does not.

[Asad Hashim @AsadHashim]

The abduction of Nasir - who strongly criticised the campaign of enforced disappearances targeting PTI, but spoke equally vehemently during Imran Khan's tenure as PM - appears to point to a widening of the the military's crackdown on dissent to those not affiliated w/ the party.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Well it is a tragedy, but that tragedy did not begin a few weeks/months ago; it began decades ago.

[Salman Masood @salmanmasood]

If you look at family links, connections, and partnerships, you'll be amazed at how much the current political instability, in some ways, is also a struggle among Lahore's elite.

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

@HarounRashid2 Older brides, I presume

[Rosita Armytage @PakRosi]

@theraedway Thank you so much— delighted to hear it!

[Hassan Zaheer @HassanZ02]

Chap strength lies in its profound examination of colonial political economy, & how the first group of business elite merged & flourished by linking merchant economies with the British war effort while also establishing relations with Indian Muslim traders & professionals. 3/

[Hassan Zaheer @HassanZ02]

Organizing her second chapter around competition, conflict & cooperation Dr. @PakRosi articulated a fascinating historical account of the 🇵🇰 "elite class" from the colonial times to the contemporary. 1/ @LibertyBooks_

[Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks]

Watch author Rosita Armytage(@PakRosi) discussing the lives of the elite in Pakistan and her book, BIG CAPITAL IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD, on the podcast The Pakistan Experience @ThePakistanExp1 https://t.co/BReyzJGsYv