Karachi : ordered disorder and the struggle for the city /
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 b...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014
New York, New York : 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A contested city
- From student brawls to campus wars
- 'The Mohajirs have arrived!'
- The bandits who would be kings
- Jihad comes to town
- A city on the edge
- Geographies of fear