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020			_a9780520272156 _qpbk. : alk. paper
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035			_a(OCoLC)757476508
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082	0	0	_a352.387 _223 _bHUL
100	1		_aHull, Matthew S. _q(Matthew Stuart), _d1968-
245	1	0	_aGovernment of paper : _bthe materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan / _cMatthew S. Hull.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2012.
300			_axiv, 301 p. : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
365			_bRs. 2735.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The master plan and other documents -- Parchis, petitions and offices: approaches to the bureaucracy -- Files and the political economy of paper -- The expropriation of land and the misappropriation of lists -- Maps, mosques, and maslaks: ecumenical planning and sectarian conflict.
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aGovernment paperwork _zPakistan _zIslāmābād.
650		0	_aBureaucracy _zPakistan _zIslāmābād.
650		0	_aCapitals (Cities) _zPakistan _xPlanning.
650		0	_aCity planning _zPakistan _zIslāmābād.
650		0	_aPublic records _zPakistan _zIslāmābād.
650		0	_aMunicipal government _zPakistan _xRecords and correspondence.
651		0	_aIslāmābād (Pakistan) _xPolitics and government.
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