Routledge - Insuring Security: Biopolitics, Security and Risk

Explore the deep connection between the global insurance industry and modern security frameworks. While insurance is recognized as the world's largest economic industry, providing security that exceeds global defense spending by more than triple, its specific role in security studies remains largely unexplored. This book provides a genealogical interrogation of how security and risk materialize through insurance practices. Through this work, the author argues that insurance practices assign specific value to life. This process creates a unique form of security that is central to understanding how contemporary liberal governance operates. By theorizing insurance as a biopolitical effect, Lobo-Guerrero offers a new perspective on how risk management shapes our world. This text is an essential resource for those studying the intersection of economics, politics, and social security.