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This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time. While connectivity seems almost ubiquitous today, it has been imagined and practiced in various ways and to varying political effects in different historical and geographical contexts.

This book is the second of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world"--

The book follows Insuring War as the third of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world.

This text offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialization in insurance. The work seeks to argue that insurance practices ascribe value to life and produce a form of security central to the understanding of liberal governance and security.

Offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.

The book follows Insuring War as the third of a trilogy that analyses how concepts and practices of power, risk and security materialise in the form of insurance as a central instrument of governance in the liberal world.

This text draws on the British experience of using maritime insurance as an instrument of war during the Napoleonic Wars, the two World Wars, and the early 21st century. It asks, what happens, when, under conditions of war, the sovereign adopts insurantial imaginaries and practices into its rationalities of government?