{"id":1451,"date":"2019-05-09T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:23:04","slug":"imer-seminar-15-05-the-design-politics-of-the-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"IMER Seminar 15.05: The Design Politics of the Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this seminar, Mahmoud Keshavarz will present his recently published book, <em>The Design of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility and Dissent.\u00a0<\/em>It is an interdisciplinary study of the passport and practices as a means of uncovering the workings of what he calls &#8216;design politics&#8217;. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; and how those affected by such injustices dissent from the immobilities imposed on them through the same capacity of design and artifice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/s200_mahmoud.keshavarz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1452\" src=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/s200_mahmoud.keshavarz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/s200_mahmoud.keshavarz.jpg 200w, https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2019\/05\/s200_mahmoud.keshavarz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mahmoud Keshavarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Engaging Vulnerability Research Program, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University. He is the co-founder of Decolonizing Design group and co-editor-in-chief of Design and Cultural Journal.<\/p>\n<p>This seminar is organized by IMER in cooperation with the at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uib.no\/en\/project\/wait\">WAIT-project<\/a> at the Centre for Women&#8217;s and Gender Research (SKOK).<\/p>\n<p>Time: Wednesday 15th of May 2019, 10.00 &#8211; 11.30<\/p>\n<p>Place: SKOK, Parkveien 9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this seminar, Mahmoud Keshavarz will present his recently published book, The Design of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility and Dissent.\u00a0It is an interdisciplinary study of the passport and practices as a means of uncovering the workings of what he calls &#8216;design politics&#8217;. It traces the histories, technologies, power relations and contestations around this small but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}