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Book: Karachi. The Land Issue by Arif Hasan, Noman Ahmed, Mansoor Raza et al
Arif Hasan, Noman Ahmed, Mansoor Raza, Asiya Sadiq-Polack, Saeed Uddin Ahmed, and Moizza B. Sarwar,
“Karachi is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It is Pakistan’s only port and the major contributor to the country’s economy. In addition, it is also a diverse city with its population politically divided along ethnic lines. These three factors make the urban land and that on the city’s fringe a highly contested commodity: federal, provincial, and local land-owning agencies, corporate sector interests, formal and Continue reading Book: Karachi. The Land Issue by Arif Hasan, Noman Ahmed, Mansoor Raza et al
Book: Karachi. Order Disorder and the Struggle for the City by Laurent Gayer
Laurent Gayer,
Laurent Gayer is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de sciences humaines (CSH), Delhi. He is also Research Associate at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.
“With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature,’ has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Continue reading Book: Karachi. Order Disorder and the Struggle for the City by Laurent Gayer
The First International Conference on Karachi (2013)
The First International Conference on Karachi will be held in 2013 in Karachi. For the purpose abstracts are invited on the broad theme divided in to ‘the historical’, ‘the contemporary’, and ‘the physical’ on all subjects related to Karachi. Abstracts should be 300 – 350 words required to be submitted on the prescribed e-mail (contact) address along with a brief bio-data of the contributors, by 30th of January, 2013; selected abstracts will be notified accordingly. Here is the link for submitting an abstract. Continue reading The First International Conference on Karachi (2013)