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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of California Pr
Publication date
June 5, 2012
Pages
301
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520272149
ISBN-10
0520272145
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$68.95
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of California Pr (June 5, 2012)
9780520272149 | details & prices | 301 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $68.95
About: In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement.
About: In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement.
Paperback
from Univ of California Pr (June 5, 2012)
9780520272156 | details & prices | 301 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $29.95
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