The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent

Author:   Mahmoud Keshavarz (University of Gothenburg, Sweden.)
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Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
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Author:   Mahmoud Keshavarz (University of Gothenburg, Sweden.)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781350143081


ISBN 10:   1350143081
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Design, politics and the mobility regime The politics of design and the design of politics Beyond a representative device Mobility regimes: practices, performances and articulations Travellers without the 'right' papers Passport situations 2. Histories Having the 'right' paper The danger of moving actors Knowing the unknown at distance The agent of empire Technologies of racialization and gendering Stateless by passport Redesigning by stamps Passports of the united Same technologies, different power 3. Power Objects Political ecologies Bodies Technologies Economies Interfaces Manipulations 4. Passporting Materialities I: how thick is your passport? II: If one can make a passport, one can remake it too Sensibilities I: I have not seen such a passport before! II: today, you are going to be a South Korean! Part-taking I: I am a citizen now! II: I have flushed down my passport Translating I: where does this passport come from? II: who speaks Hebrew? 5. Dissent Criminalization of migration brokery Different brokers of the mobility regime Migration brokers of the world, unite! We police the police Forged passports as material dissents Critical designers of the mobility regime The violence of material critique 6. The design politics An articulatory practice Vulnerability of design Ethics of design Notes References Index Acknowledgements

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Mahmoud Keshavarz’s original and evocative book, The Design Politics of the Passport, blasts conventional design studies out of the water, brilliantly exposing design’s role in making a world that contains and controls certain subjects more than others. * Alison J. Clarke, Chair of Design History and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria * In this provocative book, Mahmoud Keshavarz puts into question reigning notions of critical design, national identity, illegality, forgery, and much more. He does this by unravelling a seemingly mundane designed artefact: the passport, shifting attention from the design of passports to what passports design as they act in the world. As such, this is an exemplary study of ontological designing in action, and an important book for thinking the inter-relation of design and politics. The sharp theoretical analysis is grounded in, and enriched by, case studies of the effects of regimes of passporting on individual lives. The Design Politics of the Passport is timely in its address to the uneven distribution of rights of movement in a world where political, economic and climatic catastrophes are compelling increasing numbers of people to be on the move. * Anne-Marie Willis, Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia * 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. * Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA * An original and much-needed contribution to design history that skilfully interweaves critical theory with political histories of migration, while ensuring that the lived human experience remains at the core of the study... Keshavarz is to be commended for an engaging and provocative book that succeeds in communicating historical and contemporary experiences of migration, as well as illuminating critical issues that are largely underrepresented in design history. * Sabrina Rahman writing in the Journal of Design History *


Mahmoud Keshavarz's original and evocative book, The Design Politics of the Passport, blasts conventional design studies out of the water, brilliantly exposing design's role in making a world that contains and controls certain subjects more than others. * Alison J. Clarke, Chair of Design History and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria * In this provocative book, Mahmoud Keshavarz puts into question reigning notions of critical design, national identity, illegality, forgery, and much more. He does this by unravelling a seemingly mundane designed artefact: the passport, shifting attention from the design of passports to what passports design as they act in the world. As such, this is an exemplary study of ontological designing in action, and an important book for thinking the inter-relation of design and politics. The sharp theoretical analysis is grounded in, and enriched by, case studies of the effects of regimes of passporting on individual lives. The Design Politics of the Passport is timely in its address to the uneven distribution of rights of movement in a world where political, economic and climatic catastrophes are compelling increasing numbers of people to be on the move. * Anne-Marie Willis, Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia * 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. * Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA * An original and much-needed contribution to design history that skilfully interweaves critical theory with political histories of migration, while ensuring that the lived human experience remains at the core of the study... Keshavarz is to be commended for an engaging and provocative book that succeeds in communicating historical and contemporary experiences of migration, as well as illuminating critical issues that are largely underrepresented in design history. * Sabrina Rahman writing in the Journal of Design History *


Mahmoud Keshavarz's original and evocative book, The Design Politics of the Passport, blasts conventional design studies out of the water, brilliantly exposing design's role in making a world that contains and controls certain subjects more than others. * Alison J. Clarke, Chair of Design History and Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria * In this provocative book, Mahmoud Keshavarz puts into question reigning notions of critical design, national identity, illegality, forgery, and much more. He does this by unravelling a seemingly mundane designed artefact: the passport, shifting attention from the design of passports to what passports design as they act in the world. As such, this is an exemplary study of ontological designing in action, and an important book for thinking the inter-relation of design and politics. The sharp theoretical analysis is grounded in, and enriched by, case studies of the effects of regimes of passporting on individual lives. The Design Politics of the Passport is timely in its address to the uneven distribution of rights of movement in a world where political, economic and climatic catastrophes are compelling increasing numbers of people to be on the move. * Anne-Marie Willis, Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia * 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. * Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston, USA *


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Mahmoud Keshavarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Uppsala University, Sweden.

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