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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415583435
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104007296
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Assessment
Author
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Publication Name
Insuring Security: Biopolitics, Security and Risk
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Finance
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
178 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
200g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Series Title
Interventions
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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