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Passports: identity and airports
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This free course was written by Simon Carter.

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Extract 1 ‘Anatomy of an Airport’: Harley, R. and Fuller, G. (2005), Aviopolis: A Book About Airports, Blackdog Publishing. Reproduced by permission of the authors.

Extract 2 ‘Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts’: Latour, B. (1992), ‘Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts’, in Bijker, W. E. and Law, J. (eds), Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change, © 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reproduced by permission of the author.

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