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Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan - Couverture souple

Hull, Matthew S.

 
9780520272156: Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520272153 ISBN 13 : 9780520272156
Editeur : University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew S. Hull is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nexus of representation, technology, and institutions.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520272153
ISBN 13 
9780520272156
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
316
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