Security/Capital : A General Theory of Pacification
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474413668
ISBN-13
9781474413664
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 2016
Print length
156 Pages
Weight
266 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 20.80 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Politics & governmentPolitical science & theoryInternational relations
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Security has become the pre-eminent organising principle of modern life, inextricably bound up with capital accumulation and Empire. This is the first sociological treatise on the security-industrial complex, offering a general theory of security based on a critical engagement with the works of Marx and Foucault.
What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos'' explosive treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of ''productive labour'' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities. Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.
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