Placing the Traveller
The Banal Geographies of Travelling Documents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11147102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Henry (0000-0002-9440-7834, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-140 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sites a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0112-5990 • E-ISSN: 1179-0237 |
| Publisher | University of Otago Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11157/sites-vol6iss2id112 |
| OpenAlex | W2083554109 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Flying at 30,000 feet the modern air traveller can see the undifferentiated world stretching out beneath them, and in doing so bask in the glow of globalisation triumphant. Yet located in the seat pocket, jacket, or bag there lurks constant, if banal, reminders of the fiction of this perspective. Nestled around the body of the traveller is a mobile archive that aims to embrace the traveller in a network within which the place of the traveller as a traveller is maintained. This paper examines the hidden genealogies and geographical imaginations of these travelling documents. Drawing on examples from the fabrication of New Zealand’s post-World War One passport and permit system the chapter suggests that rather than annihilating place, travel documents entangle the traveller in complex relationships of placeness and placelessness which have long been based on the biopolitical geographies of threat and risk
Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Media studies · Sociology · Visual arts · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philippine History and Culture
Non-places
‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’
A transnational history of immigration restriction
The Global Visa Regime and the Political Technologies of the International Self
Immigration to New Zealand 1854-1938
Discipline and Punish
Surveillance at the Airport
The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
Race, Nationality, Mobility
Governmentalities of an Airport
Coming and Going
| Highly cited | No |
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