Security/Capital

A General Theory of Pacification

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-27
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:178 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474413671

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George S. Rigakos is Professor of the Political Economy of Policing at Carleton University. He has researched and published on policing and security for over a dozen years. Rigakos is also the Editor of Red Quill Books and is one of the founding members of the Anti-security Studies Group. Most recently he has acted as a policy consultant with Syriza and Transform Europe.

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In an age when capital wins time and again and everyone from politicians to academics insist that we must all bow down in the name of security, this book challenges the power of both. The outcome is a radical deployment of the concept of pacification which will transform our understanding of the wars carried out in the name of security/capital.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Security Under Capitalism; 1. Productive Labour; 2. Dispossession; 3. Exploitation; 4. The Security Commodity; 5. Security is Hegemony; 6. The Productivity of Security; Conclusions: Security After Capitalism; Bibliography; Index.