Karachi
Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
Published on 1. July 2014
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-935444-3 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi's politics, a form of "manageable violence" exists, on which the functioning of the city is based.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Figures; Maps; Tables, black and white; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-935444-3 (9780199354443)
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07/2014
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Laurent Gayer
Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
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06/2014
1st Edition
Oxford University Press
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Laurent Gayer is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in Delhi. He is also Research Associate at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud in Paris. He has coedited, with Christophe Jaffrelot, Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists, and Separatists, and Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalization, both of which are available from OUP.