Final Year Project

Project Title

Implication of Provincial Policies on Karachi’s Wedding Halls

Description

This paper studies the Karachi marriage hall policies in relation to its implications. Using the qualitative research approach, it operationalizes the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and is further guided by the intersectionality theory, the research investigates the power relations between different stakeholders involved in the policy scene. Being exploratory in nature, the research wishes to understand whether and how the class or political influence of the client enables them to bypass a policy. The research uncovers through the findings, retrieved from interviews with two marriage hall owners and the President of the Karachi Marriage Hall Association (KMHA) that not only the clients but the owners’ class, power, and political influence too play a role in passing a policy. Moreover, the analysis consolidates the linkages to what the theory of intersectionality propounds and establishes that the implications on the marriage hall economy are consequential, directly or indirectly.