{"product_id":"drivers-license-9789386606372","title":"Drivers License","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meredith Castile\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A classic teenage fetish object, the American driverșs license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youthșs pass to regulated viceȔcigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedomșs flipside: screening. The airportșs heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driverșs license re-designs. The driverșs license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of contemporary American cultureȔfreedom and security, mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in flux.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. Meredith Castile is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, USA and is an ongoing contributor of articles and book reviews for The Vienna Review.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (US)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46359555408023,"sku":"9789386606372","price":163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386606372.webp?v=1769306190","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/drivers-license-9789386606372","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}