Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Matthew S. Hull
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"Drawing inspiration from actor-network theory, science studies, and semiotics, this brilliant book makes us completely rethink the workings of bureaucracy as analyzed by Max Weber and James Scott. Matthew Hull demonstrates convincingly how the materiality of signs truly matters for understanding the projects of 'the state.'" - Katherine Verdery, author of What was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
"We are used to studies of roads and rails as central material infrastructure for the making of modern states. But what of records, the reams and reams of paper that inscribe the state-in-making? This brilliant book inquires into the materiality of information in colonial and postcolonial Pakistan. This is a work of signal importance for our understanding of the everyday graphic artifacts of authority." - Bill Maurer, author of Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
"This is an excellent and truly exceptional ethnography. Hull presents a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich reading that will be an invaluable resource to scholars in the field of Anthropology and South Asian studies. The author's focus on bureaucracy, "corruption," writing systems and urban studies (Islamabad) in a post-colonial context makes for a unique ethnographic engagement with contemporary Pakistan. In addition, Hull's study is a refreshing voice that breaks the mold of current representation of Pakistan through the security studies paradigm." - Kamran Asdar Ali, Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas
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- Title Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan
- Author Matthew S. Hull
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2012-06-05
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780520272156 / 0520272153
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 14.73 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects City planning - Pakistan - Islamabad, Government paperwork - Pakistan - Islamabad
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011042373
- Dewey Decimal Code 352.387
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