This text addresses the everyday causes and appeal of longterm involvement in extreme political violence in the urban Pakistan. It injects a more critical and innovative voice into the ongoing debates about the nature and meaning of radicalisation and violence.
This text addresses the everyday causes and appeal of longterm involvement in extreme political violence in the urban Pakistan. It injects a more crit...
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...
Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dom...
