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Driver's License
Object Lessons
- Bloomsbury Academic
- by Meredith Castile
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
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ISBN | 9781628929133 |
Author(s) | Meredith Castile |
Publication date | January 2015 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 165 x 121 mm |
Pages | 152 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom's flipside: screening. The airport's heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver's license re-designs. The driver's license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of contemporary American culture-freedom and security, mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in flux.