Final Year Project

Project Title

Motorbike Karachi

Description

This project explores how bikers in Karachi navigate the neoliberal city through everyday practices that express both freedom and constraint. Grounded in ethnographic research, it examines the dialectic between the motorbike's promise of mobility and its embeddedness in infrastructural exclusions, classed and gendered urban imaginaries, and risk. Through interviews, riding along, and field observations, the study reveals how bikers construct alternate geographies of the city, challenge dominant mobility regimes, and experience precarity within a system that marginalizes them while relying on their labor. The project's aim is to rethink urban mobility not merely as movement but as a site of power, agency, and negotiation. It contributes to broader conversations on urban studies, informality, and infrastructure by foregrounding lived experience and subaltern strategies in the making and unmaking of urban life.