Mahmoud Keshavarz is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, Sweden. His work addresses the role of materiality, technology, and designing in mobility, migration, and bordering with a particular focus on the question of race, colonialism, and coloniality. He is author of The Design Politics of Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-editor of Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below (Pluto Press 2021).