Design Politics of the Passport

<i>The Design Politics of the Passport</i> 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.<br/><br/>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.