Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building
An ethnographic study of women’s daily negotiations of peace and conflict inside a Karachi apartment building, revealing how ordinary interactions shape broader ethnic and gender relations in urban Pakistan.
About This Book
Zenana examines the textures of everyday life in a middle-class apartment building in Karachi, Pakistan.
The study centers on women’s interactions across ethnic and religious lines within shared domestic spaces.
Through extended fieldwork, the author shows how routine exchanges foster both conflict and cooperation.
The book situates these micro-level dynamics within broader questions of ethnicity, gender, and urban change in South Asia.
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