Karachi : [Book] : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city / Laurent Gayer.
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954.918021 ASI-B A book of conquest : the Chachnama and Muslim origins in South Asia / | 954.918031 HUT-B The Pakistani diasporas : corridors of opportunity and uncertainty / | 954.9183 DAM-K Karaci : in the mirror of history / | 954.9183 GAY-K Karachi : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city / | 954.9183 SAL-K Karachi legacies of empire / | 954.9183 ZIA-K Karachi in turmoil / | 954.9192 KHA-F A few recollections of my life |
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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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