Insuring security: biopolitics, security and risk

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This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.

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

Summary

This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203845899, 0203845897
oclc:ocn698449582
LC Classification:HG3054.5
Dewey Decimal:368

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.

Subjects

Assurance contre les catastrophes Assurances maritimes BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance Disaster insurance Gestion du risque Life insurance Marine insurance Risk (Insurance) Risk management Risque (Assurance)