“I Will Obey Whatever Orders Will Be Given to Me …”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Affidavit from a Slum Upgradation and Rehabilitation Project in Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Upgradation and Rehabilitation of Slums: Urban Poor and the Affidavit
3. Critical Discourse Analysis as a Tool to Analyze Social Vulnerabilities
4. Urban Poor and Slums
5. A Critical Discursive Analysis of the Affidavit
5.1. Analyzing the Affidavit
5.2. Naturalization as the Genre
- (1)
- Neither I nor any of my dependents have any plot(s) in the district of Islamabad/Rawalpindi. Neither have we occupied any housing and neither did we occupy any housing [in the past].
5.3. Evaluations and Assumptions: Modes of Linguistic Contrasts
- (2)
- I will formally construct a home (گھر) on the [given] plot; and if I change [the construction/map], it will be per prevailing laws of the CDA; also, I will obey whatever orders will be given to me by the CDA during the process [of construction of home].
- (3)
- I shall be bound to unquestioningly (چوں چَراں) accept the instructions of the CDA if the CDA feels (محسوس) any need of correction or changing in my home during the construction [period] or after its completion.
- (4)
- I, about this house, shall remain bound to follow all of the legal requirements of the CDA, or any existing laws (مروجہ قانون), or if the CDA introduces new laws or new orders anytime whatsoever (کسی بھی وقت), I shall remain bound to follow them [new laws or new orders] as well.
- (5)
- […] whenever it comes to knowledge of the CDA that I conceal anything or I transgress from any clause of this affidavit (حلف نامہ) + declaration (اقرار نامہ) then the CDA will have complete authority (پورا اختیار) of confiscation of land along with the constructed home (تعمیر شدۂ گھر); and, in such case, I shall neither demand nor shall I have any entitlement to demand compensation of any type.
6. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Waheed A. “I Will Obey Whatever Orders Will Be Given to Me …”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Affidavit from a Slum Upgradation and Rehabilitation Project in Islamabad, Pakistan. Social Sciences. 2021; 10(6):187. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060187
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