Government of Paper :: the Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan /

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 artifact...

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1. Verfasser: Hull, Matthew S.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520951884
0520951883
0520272145
9780520272149
0520272153
9780520272156
1280492031
9781280492037
9786613587268
6613587265