https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Karachi-A-History-of-Violence https://booksandideas.net/Karachi-A-History-of-Violence 2015-03-12T06:30:00Z text/html en Julien Levesque Politics Society Pakistan violence <p>Laurent Gayer's book, <i>Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City</i>, tells the story of a city described seven decades ago as the “city of lights”, but now often portrayed as one of the world's most chaotic and dangerous metropolises.</p> https://booksandideas.net/An-Ideology-of-the-Drone https://booksandideas.net/An-Ideology-of-the-Drone 2014-11-06T09:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer International United States of America Pakistan war technics army death penalty Florence Gould Foundation <p>Is the American government's drone warfare a radical kind of manhunting, or just a military tactic that can be used for various ends, ranging from highly legitimate to barbarous?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Profession-killer https://booksandideas.net/Profession-killer 2011-02-25T08:00:00Z text/html en Laurent Gayer International Pakistan <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Nicholas Khan offers an ethnographical study of the “professional killers” of a Pakistani political party and immerses the reader in the life of these murderers. Her study opens new avenues for exploring how these killers manage to make sense of their professional activities and justify their crimes.</p>