Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi write by Nichola Khan. This book was released on 2017. Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The varied voices present within this book force the reader to rethink their perspective of Karachi
Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi
Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi write by Nichola Khan. This book was released on 2017-07-15. Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of this great metropolis. By commenting in different ways on the trials and tribulations of Karachi and Pakistan, the contributors to this innovative book on the city build on past writings to say something new or different -- to make their reader re-think how they understand the processes at work in this vast urban space. They scrutinise Karachi's diverse neighborhoods to show how violence is manifested locally and citywide into protest drinking, social and religious movements, class and cosmopolitanism, gang wars, and how it affects the fractured lives of militants and journalists, among others. Oral history and memoir feature strongly in the volume as do insights gleaned from anthropology and political science
Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi
Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi write by Nichola Khan. This book was released on 2017. Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work enlists some controversies that understanding, writing about and publishing on violence in Karachi entails. It brings into conversation some prominent academics - including anthropologists and political scientists - journalists, writers and activists.
Karachi
Karachi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Karachi write by Laurent Gayer. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Karachi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 ethnicized. Karachi, often referred to as a "Pakistan in miniature," has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer's book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence "manageable" for its populations. Whether such "ordered disorder" is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and sometimes through-violence.
Armed Conflict Survey 2019
Armed Conflict Survey 2019 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armed Conflict Survey 2019 write by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). This book was released on 2019-10-02. Armed Conflict Survey 2019 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict. The book assesses key developments in 36 high-, medium- and low-intensity conflicts, including those in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Israel–Palestine, Southern Thailand, Colombia and Ukraine. The Armed Conflict Survey features essays by some of the world’s leading experts on armed conflict, including Mats Berdal, Elisabeth Jean Wood, Julia Bleckner, Nelly Lahoud, William Reno and Carrie Manning. They write on: • UN peacekeeping; • conflict-related sexual violence; • the Islamic State’s shifting narrative; • the changing foundations of governance by armed groups; and • rebel-to-party transitions. The authors’ discussion of principal thematic and cross-national trends complements the detailed analysis of each conflict at the core of the book. The Armed Conflict Survey also includes maps, infographics and multi-year data, as well as the IISS Chart of Conflict.
