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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Insuring Life

    Value, Security and Risk

    by Luis Lobo-Guerrero ...
    Series series Interventions
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Insuring War

    Sovereignty, Security and Risk

    by Luis Lobo-Guerrero ...
    Series series Interventions
    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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Insuring Security

    Biopolitics, security and risk

    by Luis Lobo-Guerrero ...
    Series series Interventions
    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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD