Government of Paper : the Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan / Matthew S. Hull.
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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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2012.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951884 0520951883 0520272145 9780520272149 0520272153 9780520272156 1280492031 9781280492037 9786613587268 6613587265 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |