Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City (Record no. 701274)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781849043113
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ISSN-L 9781849043113
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Classification number 954.9183
Item number GAY
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Personal name Gayer, Laurent
Relator term author
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Title Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. C.Hurst & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2014
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Extent xxv, 336 p.
Other physical details : ill
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General note Laurent Gayer<br/>Laurent Gayer is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de sciences humaines (CSH), Delhi. He is also Research Associate at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes Index
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Summary, etc. Summary<br/>With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature,’ has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially.<br/><br/>Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer’s book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city’s permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi’s polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence ‘manageable’ for its populations. Whether such ‘ordered disorder’ is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite—and sometimes through—violence.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element KARACHI PAKISTAN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
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9 (RLIN) 32594
Topical term or geographic name entry element ETHNIC CONFLICT PAKISTAN KARACHI
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9 (RLIN) 14430
Topical term or geographic name entry element ETHNICITY PAKISTAN
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Book Bank Book Bank Book Bank 29/08/2022 10 Purchased 5029.75   954.9183GAY B52729 29/08/2022 5029.75 29/08/2022 Rent (Rs. 400)