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Mahmoud Keshavarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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 *
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