Laurent Gayer

Karachi

Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi's politics, a form of "manageable violence" exists, on which the functioning of the city is based.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354443
• ISBN-10: 0199354448
• Artikelnr.: 39395195

Autorenporträt

Laurent Gayer is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in Delhi. He is also Research Associate at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud in Paris. He has coedited, with Christophe Jaffrelot, Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists, and Separatists, and Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalization , both of which are available from OUP.