%0 Journal Article
%T The Making of a ¡®Colony¡¯ in Karachi and the Politics of Regularisation
%A Haris Gazdar
%A Hussain Bux£¿Mallah
%J South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
%D 2012
%I Centre d¡¯Etudes de l¡¯Inde et de l¡¯Asie du Sud
%X Around half of Karachi¡¯s population resides in localities that started life as unplanned settlements, which acquired different levels of security from eviction. This paper examines the relationship between demand-making by unplanned settlements and urban political process. It interprets the gradual transformation of a cluster originally on the geographic and social periphery of the city into a regularised colony through the lens of collective action. The diverse roles of migration, mobilisation, and collective identity which we find in individual stories and community histories, capture a range of processes and experiences within Karachi¡¯s wide margin. The politics of regularisation thus offers a critical perspective on the dynamics of urban democracy.
%K Karachi
%K unplanned settlements
%K collective action
%K regularisation
%K politics
%U http://samaj.revues.org/3248