What is it about?
This article beings by reading the history of cantonments in South Asia. It then studies the way they operate at present. This is done by focusing on cantonments in Karachi. By doing this, the article attempts to theorize the postcolonial in space.
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Why is it important?
The article works at the intersection of military geography, critical urban studies, postcolonial theory, while being inspired from the theoretical perspective of Michel Foucault.
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I myself am a resident of Malir Cantonment.
Mr Muhammad Ali Nasir
Ruprecht Karls Universitat Heidelberg
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This page is a summary of: Reading Malir Cantonment in Karachi, Pakistan: some notes on residential barracks and spatial dynamics, Contemporary South Asia, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2014.979761.
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