{"product_id":"the-design-politics-of-the-passport-materiality-immobility-and-dissent-9781350143081","title":"The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mahmoud Keshavarz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Product\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Design Politics of the Passport\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086981652631,"sku":"9781350143081","price":2943.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350143081.webp?v=1767898792","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-design-politics-of-the-passport-materiality-immobility-and-dissent-9781350143081","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}