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Infrastructure Redux

Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan & Beyond

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Nausheen H. Anwar

    1. Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Pathways to Progress

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    Pages 1-23

  3. History, Ideas, Visions

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    Pages 24-68

  4. Disrupted Mobilities

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    Pages 69-110

  5. Power Breakdowns

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    Pages 111-156

  6. Whither Labor?

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    Pages 157-190

  7. Conclusion: Infrastructure’s Promise

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    Pages 191-218

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 219-252
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About this book

The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports. It looks at how these infrastructures underpin visions of progress and mediate relations between the state and capitalist firms in industrializing districts in Punjab, Pakistan.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan

    Nausheen H. Anwar

About the author

Nausheen H. Anwar is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan. She received her PhD from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, USA. Nausheen's research and teaching interests include urban development, migration, governance and globalization with a focus on South/Central Asia. Aspects of her work appear in Antipode, Citizenship Studies and South Asian History and Culture.

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