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Mobilities of Insurance: the everyday, shifting geographies of property insurance
Engaging with everyday, shifting sensibilities and ontologies of movement can unsettle a priori understandings of time and space and produce accounts of place and space that are more reflexive, open and creative. In this paper, I look at where insurance is located and how it moves within everyday life, and draw upon work of economic geographers to problematize insurance as a benign fiscal tool, the disaster management tool of choice or, as some Foucauldian scholars have observed, a temporally diverse technology. Insurance is constituted through socio-material relations that embody the emotional and the moral, and I introduce insuring-feeling as an alternative way of locating insurance with the shifting messiness of everyday life. Referencing both macro- and micro-politics at play here, I point towards how re-thinking insurance may influence how we understand the role and function of insurance in disasters and everyday life, and how and why we might research this key safety net.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
Book of Abstracts from the NZGS/IAG ConferencePagination
14Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesEvent title
NZGS/IAG ConferenceEvent Venue
Auckland, New ZealandDate of Event (Start Date)
2018-07-11Date of Event (End Date)
2018-07-14Repository Status
- Restricted