{"id":17872,"date":"2016-05-16T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=17872"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:11","slug":"new-publication-prof-rigakos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2016\/new-publication-prof-rigakos\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication from Prof. Rigakos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"Security_Capital\"<\/figure>

Prof.<\/strong> George Rigakos<\/strong><\/a> has recently completed a new publication, released via Edinburgh University Press. The book, entitled Security\/Capital A General Theory of Pacification,<\/em><\/strong> offers a radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system.<\/p>\n

What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? Prof. Rigakos’ powerful sociological treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of \u2018productive labour\u2019 in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Prof. Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on practices of dispossession, exploitation and the fetish of security commodities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Rigakos argues that a defining characteristic of the global economic system is its ability to productively sell (in)security to those it makes insecure. Materially and ideologically, the security-industrial complex is the blast furnace of global capitalism, fuelling the perpetuation of the system while feeding relentlessly on the surpluses it has exacted.<\/p>\n

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This book is available for purchase at: https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-security-capital.html<\/a><\/p>\n

View more publications from our faculty: http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/publications\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. George Rigakos has recently completed a new publication, released via Edinburgh University Press. The book, entitled Security\/Capital A General Theory of Pacification, offers a radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system. What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? Prof. Rigakos’ powerful sociological treatise charts the rise of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,27,4],"tags":[357,433,57,288],"class_list":["post-17872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications","category-research-news","tag-george-rigakos","tag-pacification","tag-publications-2","tag-security"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}