Karachi : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city
Gayer, Laurent2013
Book
Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, the author 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, interpretive and pragmatic routines that have made violence 'manageable' for its populations.
Main title:
Karachi : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city / Laurent Gayer.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hurst, 2013.
Collation:
256 p.
ISBN:
9781849043113 (pbk)
Dewey class:
954.9183
Language:
English
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BRN:
1066544