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.
Author: George S. Rigakos
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 04/27/2016
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781474413671
ISBN10: 1474413676
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Security (National & International)
- Political Science | Political Freedom
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
About the Author
George S. Rigakos is Professor of the Political Economy of Policing at Carleton University. He has researched and published on policing and security for over a dozen years. Rigakos is also the Editor of Red Quill Books and is one of the founding members of the Anti-security Studies Group. Most recently he has acted as a policy consultant with Syriza and Transform Europe.