Government of Paper The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan

Name: Government of Paper The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
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ISBN: 9780520272156

ISBN-10: 0520272153

ISBN-13: 9780520272156

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew S. Hull

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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 Paperexplores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of post-colonial…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946

Matthew S. Hullis assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.