Government of Paper : The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifact...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Berkeley : University of California Press,
2012
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Sujets: | Bureaucracy Capitals (Cities) City planning Public records Municipal government Government paperwork Government paperwork -- Pakistan -- Islamabad Bureaucracy -- Pakistan -- Islamabad Capitals (Cities) -- Pakistan -- Planning City planning -- Pakistan -- Islamabad plus... |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
Table des matières:
- IntroductionThe master plan and other documents
- Parchis, petitions and offices: approaches to the bureaucracy
- Files and the political economy of paper
- The expropriation of land and the misappropriation of lists
- Maps, mosques, and maslaks: ecumenical planning and sectarian conflict.