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Security/Capital : a general theory of pacification / George S. Rigakos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (vi, 150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474413688 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.3/42 23
LOC classification:
  • HB501 .R54 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: security under capitalism -- Productive labor -- Dispossession -- Exploitation -- The security Commodity -- Security is hegemony -- The productivity of security -- Conclusions: security after capitalism.
Summary: 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.
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Introduction: security under capitalism -- Productive labor -- Dispossession -- Exploitation -- The security Commodity -- Security is hegemony -- The productivity of security -- Conclusions: security after capitalism.

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.

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