License to travel a cultural history of the passport
"Departing for a new life far away; fleeing from the dangers, the restrictions, or just the mundanity of familiar surroundings; enduring unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of the most dramatic scenes of a life story involve a passport. By examining the travel documents of artist...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "The most precious book I possess"
- A pre-history of the passport as we know it. Ancient bodies, ancient citizens ; Great sovereigns, grand tourists ; Modern bodies, modern citizens
- The advent of the passport as we know it. Modernists and militants
- The passport as we know it. Expelled and stateless ; Migrants and Marxists ; Alien and indigenous
- Epilogue : Good passports bad passports.
