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portada Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2012
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0520272153
ISBN13
9780520272156
Edition No.
1
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Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan

Matthew S. Hull (Author) · University Of California Press · Paperback

Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan - Matthew S. Hull

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Synopsis "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 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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