Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility

By T. Baker, J. Simon. 2001

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Securitising Suburbia: The Transformation of Anglo-American Mortgage Finance (2006, background): “Put differently, MBS is constituted through the rise of calculative tools that represent ‘risk’ not as a possible hindrance, danger or loss to be minimised, pooled and spread, but as an opportunity to be embraced (cf. Baker & Simon 2002).”
Transactions After 9/11: The Banal Face of the Preemptive Strike (2008, background): “This is where security decisionmaking is enabled, ‘not in a context of certainty, nor even of available knowledge, but of doubt, premonition, foreboding, mistrust, fear and anxiety’ (Ewald 2002, 294).”
Catastrophe risk, insurance and terrorism (2004, background): “They contribute to a stronger emphasis on the responsibility of individuals, organizations, and communities to embrace more risk (Baker and Simon 2002).”
Criminogenic needs and the transformative risk subject (2005, background): “…where many aspects of social life are governed through objective, actuarial predictions of risk, and where institutional and organizational structures are ‘embracing risk’ (Baker and Simon, 2002).1 Much like other social problems, crime is viewed as a calculable, avoidable, governable risk.”