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Carte Karachi Laurent Gayer

Karachi

Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

Autor: Laurent Gayer
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Disponibilitate: Retipărire preconizată
Termenul este necunoscut
204.47 lei
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the...

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Autor
Laurent Gayer
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2014
Pagini
256
EAN
9781849043113
ISBN
1849043116
Enbook ID
05106022
Editura
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Greutate
490
Dimensiuni
146 x 215 x 24

Descriere completă

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. 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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