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Insuring Security - Biopolitics, security and risk (Paperback)
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Insuring Security - Biopolitics, security and risk (Paperback)
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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 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 that results from the continuous interaction of an
'entrepreneurial form of power', and traditional forms of sovereign
security. Through rich empirical cases and a unique theorization,
the book breaks apart the traditional division between security
studies, political economy and political theory. The author
explores this theory in relation to specific issues such as the use
of life insurance in the molecular age, the use of insurance to
securitize against environmental catastrophic risk, specialist
products such as kidnap and ransom insurance, as well as the use of
insurance to counter maritime piracy in the twenty-first century.
Providing an important and original contribution to the study of
the biopolitics of security, this work will be of great interest to
all scholars of security studies, international relations and
international political economy.
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