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Insuring Life - Value, Security and Risk (Hardcover)
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Insuring Life - Value, Security and Risk (Hardcover)
Series: Interventions
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This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the
wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of
uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from
which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through
insurance an instance of, and how does it contribute to the
transcendence of liberalism? By making a distinction between
capable life as object of insurance, and potential life as that
which escapes its control, the book conducts a historical
epistemological analysis of the problems of valuation, truth
production, securitisation, classification, and gendering that
constitute life insurance products and practices. Insuring Life
offers a critical engagement with the epistemology of life
insurance to demonstrate the unnecessary and precarious character
of the conditions that make this instrument of liberal governance
possible. It concludes that the transcendence of liberalism relies
on the technological agency of these instruments and that its
challenge begins by redefining the terms under which the potential
of life, if invaluable, is to be thought as event. The book follows
Insuring War as the third of a trilogy that analyses how concepts
and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form
of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal
world. It will be of great use to scholars, researchers, and
postgraduate students of political economy, critical security
studies and political theory, the biopolitics of security and
post-structural politics. Insuring War:
https://www.routledge.com/products/search?keywords=insuring+war
Insuring Security:
https://www.routledge.com/Insuring-Security-Biopolitics-security-and-risk/Lobo-Guerrero/p/book/9780415522854
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