Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Is Karachi an anarchic metropolis? Laurent Gayer, a research fellow at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), posits an answer to this and other questions in his book Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City, which explores the multifaceted political and criminal violence that undergirds state-society dynamics in one of Asia’s fastest growing cities. With an estimated population of 21 million, Karachi is Pakistan’s largest metropolis and the center of ...
DOI: 10.4000/samaj.3891
Author: Nausheen H. Anwar
Institution: Institute of Business Administration Karachi
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1511181733