Calculations of risk : liberalism agency and modernity
This thesis explores the interconnected socio-cultural trajectories of the objectification of risk as calculable uncertainty, the institutionalisation of life insurance as a reparatory technology and the development of moral and political discourses incorporating such constructs. Using the case of l...
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University of Manchester
1996
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601149 |