Abstract
Updating earlier works on violence in the city, this book elaborates on a key question: “After almost three decades of violent conflict and repeated sequences of escalation, how was Karachi spared a full-grown, free-for-all conflagration?” Taking the city at large as his analytic framework, Gayer tracks “patterns and routines of ordered disorder” through eight months of fieldwork conducted over twelve years with activists, political representatives, social workers, poets and militants across the city, including in its most volatile areas. The book complements its rich theoretical interpretation with a meticulously researched analysis of party literature, 20 years of local press coverage, Urdu poetry, and a wealth of photographs, including those from the Dawn newspaper’s archives
Original language | English |
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Publisher | The Herald Monthly News Journal |
Place of Publication | The Herald (Dawn Group, Pakistan) |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2014 |
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Nichola Khan
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Reader
- Care, Health and Emotional Wellbeing Research and Enterprise Group
- Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories
- Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics
- Cities, Injustice and Resistance Research and Enterprise Group
Person: Academic