STATE POWER, CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND THE URBAN FRONTIER: THE POLITICS OF THE

COMMONS IN KARACHI

by Nausheen H Anwar

Key players in legal dispute

--Shehri (NGO)--Ministry of Defense

--Awami Welfare Trust--Makro-Habib

http://www.shehri.org/

Nandini Sundar (2010)“The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-struggles and the

neoliberal-state” in The State in India after liberalization:Interdisciplinary

Perspectives, Akil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishman (eds.) London:

Routledge

Examples of scholarship on governmentality--Appadurai, Arjun (2001) Deep democracy: urban

governmentality and the horizon of politics. Environment and Urbanization 13 (2): 23-43.

--Burchell,Graham et al. (eds.) (1991) The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. University of

Chicago Press--Chatterjee, Partha (2004) The Politics of the

Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. New York: Columbia University Press

--Roy, Ananya (2009) Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and Mumbai. Antipode, 41 (1):

159-179

Other examples concerning struggles over commons

Economic Political Weekly (Dec. 2011)Review of Urban Affairs: The Commons

http://beta.epw.in/block_item/62/