192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is known about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.
This work seeks to argue that insurance practices ascribe... Read more
Introduction 1. Making Uncertanty Fungible 2. Securing by Capitalizing Life 3. The Quest for Insurability in the Molecular Age 4. Securitising Catastrophic Environment, Insuring Uninsurable Lives 5. Kidnap and Ransom Insurance 6. Insurance and the Securitization of Global Maritime Circulation 7. Valuation-Subjectivity-Security
Biography
Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University, UK. He has published widely on the biopolitics of security, insurance as a liberal security technology, and the relationship between security, risk and liberal governance.
