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Lobo-Guerrero, Luis. "Kidnap and Ransom Insurance: micro-practices of security through risk embracing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98146_index.html>

Lobo-Guerrero, L. , 2006-03-22 "Kidnap and Ransom Insurance: micro-practices of security through risk embracing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p98146_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper argues that insurance is a technology through which kidnap is rendered manageable by transforming it into an occupational hazard. While analysing Kidnap and Ransom Insurance as the risk-embracing instrument that emerges from such a problematisation, two forms of security result: a preventative one in the form of a security audit, and a reparational form as a complex ensemble of expert knowledge and financial support. The paper suggests that these two forms of security are grounded on a notion of risk as an instrument of governance rather than an organising principle of life. The ‘risk embracing’ approach is presented as an epistemologically-based micro-practice of security through which a liberal form of life is promoted and protected. Lessons from this approach for the field of security studies are offered in the conclusions.

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