{"product_id":"9789351160861","title":"Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for City","description":"With a population exceeding twenty million, Karachi is one of the  world's largest 'megacities'. It is also one of the most violent.  Since the mid-1980s, Karachi has endured endemic political confl ict  and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and  its resources (votes, land and bhatta-'protection' money). - ese  struggles for the city have become ethnicised. In the process, Karachi,  often referred to as a 'Pakistan in miniature', has become increasingly  fragmented, socially as well as territorially.  Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi remains  the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. In contrast to the 'chaotic'and 'anarchic' city portrayed in journalistic accounts, there is indeed  order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war.  Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon relatively  stable patterns of domination, rituals of interaction and forms of  arbitration, which have made violence manageable for its population  -even if this does not exclude a pervasive state of fear, which results  from the continuous transformation of violence in the course of  its updating. Whether such 'ordered disorder' is viable in the long  term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and  sometimes through-violence.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143483801840,"sku":"9789351160861","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789351160861_p0.jpg?v=1765233942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789351160861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}