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eBook
Government of paper
2012
Overview
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 unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ builders
/ Bureaucracy -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
/ Capitals (Cities) -- Pakistan -- Planning
/ City planning -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
/ Cultural
/ Government paperwork -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
/ imams
/ Islāmābād (Pakistan) -- Politics and government
/ Municipal government -- Pakistan -- Records and correspondence
/ Pakistan
/ Planning
/ Public records -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ urbanism
ISBN
9780520272149, 0520272153, 9780520272156, 0520272145, 0520951883, 9780520951884
