Passports: identity and airports

This free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. 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.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 The passport system
• 1 The passport system
• 1.1 Passport regimes – inclusion and exclusion
• 2 Passports and the airport
• 2 Passports and the airport
• 3 Aviopolis
• 3 Aviopolis
• 4 Airports: the social, the material and the hybrid
• 4 Airports: the social, the material and the hybrid
• 4.1 A material analysis of the airport
• 4.2 Airports and hybrids
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements