Constructing Lyari: place, governance and identity in a Karachi neighbourhood
Constructing Lyari: place, governance and identity in a Karachi neighbourhood
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建设 Lyari：卡拉奇社区的地点、治理和身份
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2014
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Sarwat Viqar
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Sarwat Viqar
本文探讨了一系列的话语和做法，主导了一系列的社会参与者的日常生活中的行政和组织的Lyari镇，卡拉奇最古老的定居点之一。这些话语以历史边缘化和抵抗的叙述为基础，与这一领域高度规范的新兴社会空间实践相联系。这些做法创造了一种公共和社区空间的景观：体育俱乐部、公园、学校和社区服务中心，这些都是煽动性政治和庇护政治，甚至是地下犯罪集团支持的结果。特别强调体育，即足球和拳击，不仅是青年的生产活动，而且是俾路支政治身份的一个强有力的标志，俾路支是Lyari的主要族裔群体。我认为，通过部署一个富有成效的话语周围的地方，种族和政治边缘化，这些不同类型的权力组合已经创建了自己的治理模式，这是新兴的背景下，国家的作用，在提供市政服务和城市决策仍然有争议和模糊的，法治被视为薄弱或缺席。
This article explores a range of discourses and practices that dominate the everyday lives of a range of social actors involved in the administration and organization of Lyari Town, one of the oldest settlements of Karachi. Underwritten by a narrative of historic marginalization as well as resistance, these discourses are linked to emerging socio-spatial practices in this area that are highly prescriptive. These practices have created a landscape of public and community spaces: sports clubs, parks, schools and community service centres which have materialized as a result of a combination of agitatory as well as patronage politics and even support from the criminal underground. There is a particular emphasis on sports, namely soccer and boxing, as not only productive activities for the youth but also as a strong marker of Baloch political identity, the Baloch being the dominant ethnic group in Lyari. I argue that by deploying a productive discourse around place, ethnicity and political marginalization, these assemblages of different kinds of powers have created their own mode of governance which is emerging in a context where the state’s role in the provision of municipal services and city-making remains contested and ambiguous, and the rule of law is seen to be weak or absent.