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xxiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
People All Around You: Locating Karachi in the Poetry of Azra Abbas / Asif Furrukhi; 1994: Political Madness, Ethics, and Story-making in Liaquatabad district in Karachi / Nichola Khan ; Karachi: A Pashtun City? / Zia Ur Rehman ; The Sunday Fighter: Doubts, Fears, and Little Secrets of an Intermittent Combatant / Laurent Gayer ; Life in a 'No-go Area': Experiences of Marginalisation and Fear in Lyari / Nida Kirmani ; 'Our Rule': The MQM, the Dawat-i-Islami, and Mohajir Religiosity / Oskar Verkaaik ; Prohibition and 'Sharab' as Political Protest in Karachi / Nadeem F. Paracha; The Cost of Free Speech: the Media in the Battlefields of Karachi / Razeshta Sethna ; From the Demise of Cosmopolitanism to its Revival: Trends and Repercussions for Karachi / Arif Hasan ; Four 'Ordinary' Deaths / Kausar S. Khan. |
| Summary |
"Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of this great metropolis. By commenting in different ways on the trials and tribulations of Karachi and Pakistan, the contributors to this innovative book on the city build on past writings to say something new or different -- to make their reader re-think how they understand the processes at work in this vast urban space. They scrutinise Karachi's diverse neighborhoods to show how violence is manifested locally and citywide into protest drinking, social and religious movements, class and cosmopolitanism, gang wars, and how it affects the fractured lives of militants and journalists, among others."--The dust jacket. Provided by publisher |
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Karachi (Pakistan) -- Politics and government.
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Political violence -- Pakistan -- Karachi.
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Political violence. (OCoLC)fst01069902
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Pakistan -- Karachi.
(OCoLC)fst01206375
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| Added Author |
Khan, Nichola, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190656546 (hardcover) |
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0190656549 (hardcover) |
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9780199405664 |
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0199405662 |
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