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Zusatztext In this exciting and conceptually ambitious study! Mahmoud Keshavarz gives new meaning and substance to such well established concepts as the production of space and the diagram of power. By examining with incisive care and precision the co-articulations of space and power through the artefact of the passport! this book's interrogation of the politics of design and the design of power offers a refreshing and path-breaking perspective on the materiality of bordering and im/mobiilty. Informationen zum Autor Mahmoud Keshavarz is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is author of The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below (2022).A study of the material history and cultural practices associated with the passport, which considers how the design and uses of identity documents are used to enforce and control national identity and access to mobility. Zusammenfassung The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of ‘design politics’. It traces the histories, technologies, power relations and contestations around this small but powerful artefact to establish a framework for understanding how design is always enmeshed in the political, and how politics can be understood in terms of material objects.Combining design studies with critical border studies, alongside ethnographic work among undocumented migrants, border transgressors and passport forgers, this book shows how a world made and designed as open and hospitable to some is strictly enclosed, confined and demarcated for many others - and how those affected by such injustices dissent from the immobilities imposed on them through the same capacity of design and artifice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Design, politics and the mobility regime The politics of design and the design of politicsBeyond a representative deviceMobility regimes: practices, performances and articulationsTravellers without the ‘right’ papersPassport situations 2. Histories Having 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 power 3. Power ObjectsPolitical ecologiesBodiesTechnologiesEconomiesInterfacesManipulations 4. Passporting MaterialitiesI: 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. Dissent Criminalization 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 critique 6. The design politics An articulatory practiceVulnerability of designEthics of design NotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgements...
