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This course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport.
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Description
Using a lively mixture of videos, interactive exercises and readings, the course explores how the social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material objects.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the historical and sociological context of how passports became commonplace
- Identify ways in which passport regimes are used to sort, categorise, order and classify populations
- Consider ways that the passport can produce racialised subjects
- Understand how the passport has become a staple of security in the modern airport
- Understand the role of matter and the material in making social worlds by using the airport as a case study.
Course content
- Introduction 00:05:00
- Learning outcomes 00:07:00
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- The passport system 00:15:00
- Passport regimes – inclusion and exclusion 00:15:00
- Passports and the airport 00:15:00
- Aviopolis 00:10:00
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- Airports: the social, the material and the hybrid 00:25:00
- A material analysis of the airport 00:10:00
- Airports and hybrids 00:15:00
- Conclusion 00:10:00
Instructor
Open University UK
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