| Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification Contributor(s): Rigakos, George S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474413676 ISBN-13: 9781474413671 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $19.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Political Freedom - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |