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This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of
novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity
in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has
been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying
political effects in different historical and geographical
contexts. Often the conception of new connectivities also gives
birth to new spaces of governance. The political denomination of
spaces - whether maritime, continental, social, or virtual -
reflects the situatedness of power. Yet, such crafting of new
spaces also expresses particular imaginaries and technologies of
connectivity that make governance possible. Whereas the study of
international relations has traditionally focused on the role of
agency and structure in power relations, the affects, beliefs,
attitudes, and practices that intervene in how groups of people
connect in given times have not attracted much scholarly attention
Overall, the detailed and original case studies examined in the
book range from the 16th century, to the 19th century, to the
present, and from Spain, to the Maritime Alps, to Germany, to the
Mediterranean, to China, to East Asia. The historical and
geographical variety of the cases serves to highlight the diversity
of the meaning and function of connectivity in the constitution of
novel spaces of governance.
This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to
understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological
practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European
imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations
of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping's past and its
multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely
an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of
cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an
awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with
composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour
potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between
mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet
attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping
of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning
literature on the history of international relations and empire.
The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for
IR's state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further
erode the myth of Westphalia.
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
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
Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in
the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction
between governments and insurers in Western countries has
materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed
to the waging of war and the preservation of peace. The operation
of those schemes has given rise to a curious, if not innocent,
association between practices of statehood and practices of risk,
which are theorised here under the label of 'insurantial
sovereignty'. The book draws on the British experience of using
maritime insurance as an instrument of war during the Napoleonic
Wars, the two World Wars, and the early twenty-first century. It
asks, what happens, when, under conditions of war, the sovereign
adopts insurantial imaginaries and practices into its rationalities
of government? In doing so the book makes a novel contribution to
the understanding of liberal security and liberal governance which
is central to the theory of Political Science and International
Relations, the understanding of international political sociology,
and international political economy. The book follows Insuring
Security: Biopolitics, Security and Risk as the second 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.
Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in
the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction
between governments and insurers in Western countries has
materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed
to the waging of war and the preservation of peace. The operation
of those schemes has given rise to a curious, if not innocent,
association between practices of statehood and practices of risk,
which are theorised here under the label of 'insurantial
sovereignty'. The book draws on the British experience of using
maritime insurance as an instrument of war during the Napoleonic
Wars, the two World Wars, and the early twenty-first century. It
asks, what happens, when, under conditions of war, the sovereign
adopts insurantial imaginaries and practices into its rationalities
of government? In doing so the book makes a novel contribution to
the understanding of liberal security and liberal governance which
is central to the theory of Political Science and International
Relations, the understanding of international political sociology,
and international political economy. The book follows Insuring
Security: Biopolitics, Security and Risk as the second 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. Insuring Security:
https://www.routledge.com/Insuring-Security-Biopolitics-security-and-risk/Lobo-Guerrero/p/book/9780415522854
Insuring Life:
https://www.routledge.com/Insuring-Life-Value-Security-and-Risk/Lobo-Guerrero/p/book/9780415716079
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.
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 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. Insuring War:
https://www.routledge.com/products/search?keywords=insuring+war
Insuring Life:
https://www.routledge.com/Insuring-Life-Value-Security-and-Risk/Lobo-Guerrero/p/book/9780415716079
This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of
novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity
in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has
been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying
political effects in different historical and geographical
contexts. Often the conception of new connectivities also gives
birth to new spaces of governance. The political denomination of
spaces - whether maritime, continental, social, or virtual -
reflects the situatedness of power. Yet, such crafting of new
spaces also expresses particular imaginaries and technologies of
connectivity that make governance possible. Whereas the study of
international relations has traditionally focused on the role of
agency and structure in power relations, the affects, beliefs,
attitudes, and practices that intervene in how groups of people
connect in given times have not attracted much scholarly attention
Overall, the detailed and original case studies examined in the
book range from the 16th century, to the 19th century, to the
present, and from Spain, to the Maritime Alps, to Germany, to the
Mediterranean, to China, to East Asia. The historical and
geographical variety of the cases serves to highlight the diversity
of the meaning and function of connectivity in the constitution of
novel spaces of governance.
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