The Design Politics of the Passport : Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent /: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mahmoud Keshavarz.
• Authors: Keshavarz, Mahmoud
• Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION: DESIGN, POLITICS AND THE MOBILITY REGIMEThe politics of design and the design of politicsBeyond a representative deviceMobility regimes: practices, performances and articulationsTravellers without the 'right' papersPassport situations2. HISTORIESHaving the 'right' paperThe danger of moving actorsKnowing the unknown at distanceThe agent of empireTechnologies of racialization and genderingStateless by passportRedesigning by stampsPassports of the unitedSame technologies, different power3. POWERObjectsPolitical ecologiesBodiesTechnologiesEconomiesInterfacesManipulations4. PASSPORTINGMaterialitiesI: how thick is your passport? II: If one can make a passport, one can remake it tooSensibilitiesI: I have not seen such a passport before! II: today, you are going to be a South Korean! Part-takingI: I am a citizen now! II: I have flushed down my passportTranslatingI: where does this passport come from? II: who speaks Hebrew? 5. DISSENTCriminalization of migration brokeryDifferent brokers of the mobility regimeMigration brokers of the world, unite! We police the policeForged passports as material dissentsCritical designers of the mobility regimeThe violence of material critique6. THE DESIGN POLITICSAn articulatory practiceVulnerability of designEthics of design NOTESREFERENCESINDEXACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Geopolitics; Design -- General; Design -- Product; Political Science -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism; Product design
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474289382
• Related ISBNs: 147428938X; 9781474289399
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