Infrastructure Redux - Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan & Beyond

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Pathways to Progress 1. History, Ideas, Visions 2. Disrupted Mobilities 3. Power Breakdowns 4. Whither Labor? Conclusion: Infrastructure's Promise

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Introduction: Pathways to Progress 1. History, Ideas, Visions 2. Disrupted Mobilities 3. Power Breakdowns 4. Whither Labor? Conclusion: Infrastructure's Promise

Product details

• Authors: N Anwar, N. Anwar, Nausheen Anwar
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349496365
• ISBN: 978-1-349-49636-5
• No. of pages: 265
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business; B, Economic Policy, International Relations, economic growth, Regional Studies, Economic development, Political Economy, Regional/Spatial Science, Regional and Spatial Economics, regional economics, Management science, Spatial economics, International Political Economy, Development Studies, Development Economics, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Development Theory, International Political Economy’