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George S. Rigakos - Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification - 9781474413671 - V9781474413671
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Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification

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Description for Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification Paperback. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS; JPV; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 180.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474413671
SKU
V9781474413671
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99-50

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