Imagining risk, care and security: Insurance and fantasy

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-118

  Patel, Geeta ^a,b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b 422 Founders Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Care; Community; Corporation; Fantasy; Insurance; Labor; Nation; Pension; Property; Risk; Time; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249159842     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499607074297     Document Type: Review

References (64)

1. Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
2. Althusser, L. (1971) Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. New York: Monthly Review Press
3. Appadurai, A. (1997) 'Number in the Colonial Imagination', in Modernity at Large: Cultural Effects of Globalization, pp. 114-38. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
4. Aretxaga, B. (2003) 'Maddening States', Annual Review of Anthropology 32(1). 393-410
5. Aretxaga, B. (2005) States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga's Essays. Reno: Center for Basque Studies
6. Arnold, D. (1988) Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
7. Baucom, I. (2005) Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery and the Philosophy of History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
8. Blackburn, R. (2002) Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions. London and New York: Verso
9. Bollas, C. (1987) The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known. New York: Columbia University Press
10. Bollas, C. (1992) Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience. New York: Hill and Wang
11. Bollas, C. (1995) Cracking Up: The Work of Unconscious Experience. New York: Hill and Wang
12. Bollas, C. (1999) The Mystery of Things. London and New York: Routledge
13. Bose, B. (2006) Alternative Sexualities. Calcutta: Seagull Press
14. Burchell, G., C. Gordon and P. Miller, eds (1991) The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: with Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf
15. Coombe, R.J. (1998) The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
16. Cvetkovich, A. (2003) An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
17. Davis, M. (2001) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño, Famines and the Making of the Third World. New York: Verso
18. Derrida, J. (1994) Specters of Marx: the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. New York: Routledge
19. Deuchars, R. (2004) The International Political Economy of Risk: Rationalism, Calculation and Power. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company
20. Dimen, M. (1994) 'Money, Love and Hate', Psychoanalytic Dialogues 4(1). 69-100
21. Edelman, L. (2004) No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
22. Eng, D. and D. Kazanjian, eds (2002) Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Berkeley: University of California Press
23. Ericson, Richard V. and A. Doyle, eds (2003) Risk and Morality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
24. Ericson, Richard V., A. Doyle and D. Barry (2003) Insurance as Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
25. Ewald, F. (1991) 'Insurance and Risk', in G. Burchell, C. Gordon and P. Miller (eds) The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: with two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault, pp. 197-210. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
26. Feldstein, R., B. Fink and M. Jaanus (1996) Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud. Albany: State University of New York Press
27. Foucault, M. (1997) Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. New York: New Press
28. Freud, S. (1953-1973 [1919]) 'A Child is Being Beaten', in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume 17 (ed. J. Stratchey). London: Hogarth Press
29. Giddens, A. (2000) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives. New York: Routledge
30. Gigerenzer, G. (2000) Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World. New York: Oxford University Press
31. Gigerenzer, G. (2002) Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You. New York: Simon and Schuster
32. Gramsci, A. (1980) Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers
33. Hacking, I. (1975) The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. London: Cambridge University Press
34. Hacking, I. (2002) Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
35. Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
36. Johnson, W. (2001) Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
37. Lyon, D. (2001) Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life. London: Open University Press
38. Maurer, B. (2005) Mutual Life Ltd.: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
39. Mbembe, J.A. (2003) 'Necropolitics', Public Culture 15(1). 11-40
40. Miller, J.C. (1996) Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
41. Mitchell, T. (2002) Rule of Experts: Egypt, Technopolitics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press
42. Morgan, E.V. (1965) A History of Money. Baltimore: Pelican Books
43. Moss, D.A. (1996) 'Government, Markets, and Uncertainty: An Historical Approach to Public Risk Management in the United States'. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 97-025
44. Moss, D.A. (2002) When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
45. Navaro-Yashin, Y. (2002) Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
46. O'Harrow, R. Jr (2005) No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of our Emerging Surveillance Society. New York: Free Press
47. O'Malley, Pat (1998) Crime and the Risk Society. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate
48. O'Malley, Pat (2004) Risk, Uncertainty and Government. London: Routledge Cavendish
49. Patel, G. (2007) 'Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality and Capital', Social Text 25(1/89)
50. Pels, P. (2000) 'The Trickster's Dilemma: Ethics and the Technologies of the Anthropological Self', in M. Strathern (ed.) Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy, pp. 135-73. London and New York: Routledge
51. Rajchman, J., ed. (1995) The Identity in Question. New York, London: Routledge
52. Rose, J. (1995) States of Fantasy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
53. Ruskola, T. (2005a) 'Home Economics: What is the Difference Between a Family and a Corporation?', in M.M Ertman and J.C. Williams (eds) Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture, pp. 324-45. New York: New York University Press
54. Ruskola, T. (2005b) 'The Business of Personhood: Corporations and Essentialism', unpublished essay in author's possession
55. Sacks, P.M. and S.H. Crawford (1991) New Products, New Risks: How Bankers are Adapting to the New International Marketplace. New York: HarperBusiness
56. Schiller, R.J. (2003) The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
57. Staples, W.G. (2000) Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
58. Strathern, M., ed. (2000) Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy. London and New York: Routledge
59. Taleb, N.N. (2004) Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. New York: Texere
60. Winnicott, D.W. (1965) The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development. New York: International University Press
61. Zelizer, V.A.R. (1979) Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press
62. Zelizer, V.A.R. (1994) The Social Meaning of Money. New York: Basic Books
63. Žižek, S. (1995) The Sublime Object of Ideology. London and New York: Verso
64. Žižek, S. (1997) The Plague of Fantasies. London and New York: Verso