TY  - JOUR
TI  - Insurances as part of "human security", their timescapes and spatiality
AU  - Zwierlein, Cornel
PY  - 2010
LA  - eng
KW  - Wirtschaft
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Economics
KW  - History
KW  - Wirtschaftssektoren
KW  - allgemeine Geschichte
KW  - Economic Sectors
KW  - General History
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Produktion
KW  - Sicherheit
KW  - Zeit
KW  - Raum
KW  - menschliche Sicherheit
KW  - Versicherung
KW  - Moderne
KW  - Zukunft
KW  - Regime
KW  - historische Entwicklung
KW  - society
KW  - production
KW  - security
KW  - time
KW  - zone
KW  - human security
KW  - insurance
KW  - modernity
KW  - future
KW  - regime
KW  - historical development
KW  - historisch
KW  - historical
AB  - "In the present discussion on 'Human Security', Insurances have been only lately involved. The contribution starts with the assumption that Insurances are historically an especially fruitful object of research for the general question of the history of security regimes. It shows that, contrary to some suggestions held in risk sociology, early Mediterranean maritime insurances are to be judged rather as something completely different than the modern insurances from the 17th century onwards managed by merchants' companies and states. The latter belonged to a secular process of constructing a 'normal secure society' during enlightenment. The relationship between Timescapes, Spatiality and Insurances is analyzed: are Insurances per se an instrument of colonizing 'the future' because they are instrumental in calculating and constructing clearly defined 'risks'? or is that future orientation just one element, but is perhaps the wider socio-political context with its prevailing timescapes in which the insurance operations were embedded a changing one from pre- to postmodernity? Asking those questions the article contributes to an approach of using 'human security' as a heuristical device to explore the history of security production." (author's abstract)
UR  - http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/32138
UR  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.4.253-274
DO  - 10.12759/hsr.35.2010.4.253-274
T2  - Historical social research: HSR-Retrospective (HSR-Retro) = Historische Sozialforschung
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
SN  - 2366-6846
SN  - 0172-6404
SP  - 253-274
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/ssoar-oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/32138
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -