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UNISALENTO991003466119707536 |
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Autore |
Vanoye, Francis |
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Recit écrit, recit filmique / Francis Vanoye |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910785477503321 |
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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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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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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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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Disaster insurance |
Life insurance |
Marine insurance |
Risk (Insurance) |
Risk management |
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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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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 t |
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