If displacement is a strategy targeting de facto non-citizens, then upper-middle class urban Muslims emerge as the true citizens of Pakistan.
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Posts Tagged ‘ space ’
Making Karachi
Spaces of Waste | Invisible Cities
Filth, refuse, trash, and waste of all kinds are consistent and unwanted features of the urban landscape in Lahore. Despite its ubiquity, waste material is a thing that must be moved, whether from a household, commercial establishment, mohalla, or even a street, to an elsewhere. It is constantly in motion, being moved from one...
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From My City to Mega City: Why Does It Matter | Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities | BLOG
The city, as much as it exists in ‘real’ space, is a formation in our minds. Public space then, is an emotional construct in our mind’s eye, laden with ‘meaning’ and association that we attribute to it as observers. Just as the spaces and places we inhabit shape us, we...
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Calvino’s Tales And The City | Invisible Cities
"To seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, and then make them endure, give them space."
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میدانِ تقسیم سے نظارہ
جون ۲۰۱۳ کے آغاز میں ترکی میں کچھ ایسے واقعات رونما ہوئے جن کی وجہ سے میرا سیاست پر سے ایمان اٹھ گیا۔
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A View from Taksim Square
اردو | In the wake of Taksim, even allies succumbed to stereotypes about Turkey.
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