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Author Hull, Matthew S

Title Government of Paper : the Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan / Matthew S. Hull
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; Writing of the Bureaucracy; Signs of Paper; Associations of Paper; Background of the Study; 1. The Master Plan and Other Documents; Splendid Isolation; The Dynapolis and the Colonial City; Communities of All Classes and Categories; From Separation to Participation; 2. Parchis, Petitions, and Offices; At Home in the Office; Parchis, Connections, and Recognition; Petitions: Citizens, Bureaucrats, and Supplicants; Influence; 3. Files and the Political Economy of Paper
The Materiality of CasesIndividual Writers and Corporate Authority; Tactics of Irresponsibility and the Byproduct of the Collective; Particular Projects and Collective Agency; A Contest of Graphic Genres; 4. The Expropriation of Land and the Misappropriation of Lists; Problematics of Reference and Materiality; Early Planning and Failed Opposition; Shifting Houses and Dummy Houses; Demolition Certificates; Package Deals and Individual Signatures; Loose Lists; Mediating like a State; 5. Maps, Mosques, and Maslaks; A Mosque for Every Community; A Mosque for Every Maslak; Claims on the Map
Temporality of Maps and Islamic Adverse PossessionSquatting according to Plan; Conclusion: Participatory Bureaucracy; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary 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
Analysis builders
bureaucracy
bureaucratic documentation
bureaucrats
businessmen
colonial era
contemporary history
imams
islamabad
legal anthropology
material infrastructure
materials
middle east scholars
middle east
modern pakistan
nonfiction
pakistan
paper artifacts
paper documents
paper mediation
political economy
politicians
postcolonialism
property owners
social science
state government
urban bureaucracy
urban landscape
urbanism
villagers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Government paperwork -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
Bureaucracy -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
Capitals (Cities) -- Pakistan -- Planning
City planning -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
Public records -- Pakistan -- Islāmābād
Municipal government -- Pakistan -- Records and correspondence
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Bureaucracy
Capitals (Cities) -- Planning
City planning
Government paperwork
Municipal government
Politics and government
Public records
Dokument
Verwaltung
Stadtplanung
SUBJECT Islāmābād (Pakistan) -- Politics and government
Subject Pakistan
Pakistan -- Islāmābād
Genre/Form personal correspondence.
Records (Documents)
Personal correspondence
Records and correspondence
Personal correspondence.
Records (Documents)
Correspondance privée.
Documents administratifs.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011042373
ISBN 9780520951884
0520951883
0520272145
9780520272149
0520272153
9780520272156
1280492031
9781280492037
9786613587268
6613587265