Security/Capital
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A radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system
What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos'' powerful sociological 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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- Intro
- Security / Capital
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Security under Capitalism
- 1 Productive Labor
- 2 Dispossession
- 3 Exploitation
- 4 The Security Commodity
- 5 Security is Hegemony
- 6 The Productivity of Security
- Conclusions: Security after Capitalism
- Bibliography
- Index
