Government of Paper - Matthew S. Hull - University of California Press
In 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
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