Cityscapes of violence in Karachi: Publics and Counterpublics

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface: A Transformed Landscape; Introduction; 1. People All Around You: Locating Karachi in the Poetry of Azra Abbas; 2. 1994: Political Madness, Ethics, and Story-making in Liaquatabad district in Karachi; 3. Karachi: A Pashtun City?; 4. The Sunday Fighter: Doubts, Fears, and Little Secrets of an Intermittent Combatant; 5. Life in a 'No-go Area': Experiences of Marginalisation and Fear in Lyari; 6. 'Our Rule': The MQM, the Dawat-i-Islami, and Mohajir Religiosity; 7. Prohibition and 'Sharab' as Political Protest in Karachi; 8. The Cost of Free Speech: the Media in the Battlefields of Karachi; 9. From the Demise of Cosmopolitanism to its Revival: Trends and Repercussions for Karachi; 10. Four 'Ordinary' Deaths; Afterword I; Afterword II; Select Bibliography; Index