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Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions
Critical insurance studies recognises insurance as not purely actuarial and calculative. From this recognition, this theoretically informed research pays attention to the reproduction of power in insurantial discourse and practice, and possibilities for equitable change. To extend geographical contributions in this regard, I review critical insurance research and describe three intersecting foci – governmentality, materiality and spatiality. I also contribute new insights in considering insurance as co-constituting fluid and fire space – as flowing and adapting within everyday complexities, and as fiery and constituted through multiple flickering realities. These contestable multiplicities and mobilities may contribute to more equitable configurations beyond the hegemonic.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
Progress in Human GeographyPagination
03091325211036181ISSN
0309-1325Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
ArnoldPlace of publication
Hodder Headline Plc, 338 Euston Road, London, England, Nw1 3BhRights statement
Copyright The Author(s) 2021. This article has been published in Progress in human geographyRepository Status
- Open