Government of Paper : The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
by Hull, Matthew S.
Published by : University of California Press (Berkeley) Physical details: 301 Pages 22x14 cm | PB ISBN:9780520272156. Year: 2012 List(s) this item appears in: Others miscellaneous| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet.
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