Insuring security : biopolitics, security and risk / Luis Lobo-Guerrero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lobo-Guerrero, Luis, author.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster insurance.

Life insurance.

Marine insurance.

Risk (Insurance).

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Insurance is the world's largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know 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 value to life and in so doing produce a form of security central to the understanding of contemporary liberal governance and security. Lobo-Guerrero theorizes insurance as a biopolitical effect t

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Making uncertainty fungible; 2 Securing by capitalizing life; 3 The quest for insurability in the molecular age; 4 Securitizing catastrophic environments, insuring uninsurable lives; 5 Kidnap and ransom insurance; 6 Insurance and the securitization of global maritime circulation; 7 Valuation-subjectivity-security; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-169) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-93047-7

1-136-93048-5

1-282-93033-8

9786612930331

0-203-84589-7

9780203845899

OCLC:

693761174