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UNINA9910459503903321 |
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Autore |
Lobo-Guerrero Luis. |
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Titolo |
Insuring security : biopolitics, security and risk / / Luis Lobo-Guerrero |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-93047-7 |
1-136-93048-5 |
1-282-93033-8 |
9786612930331 |
0-203-84589-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Disaster insurance |
Life insurance |
Marine insurance |
Risk (Insurance) |
Risk management |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-169) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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