Abstract

This special collection examines insurance as an increasingly central mechanism in shaping how the effects of climate change are transforming local economies and ways of life. The papers study a range of exemplary cases, ranging from agricultural micro-insurance in development policy and regional sovereign risk facilities in the Caribbean to public and private insurance in the United States. This framing essay situates these papers in a longer tradition of scholarship on the government of risk and security. It also describes three themes that run through the papers: the economization of climate change; the moral economy of risk and responsibility; and the plasticity of insurance as an abstract technology that may be taken up in various governmental assemblages, in the name of various political projects.

摘要

该专题集将保险视为塑造气候变化影响如何改变当地经济和生活方式的日益重要的中心机制。这些论文研究了一系列示例性案例，从发展政策中的农业小额保险和加勒比地区的区域主权风险设施到美国的公共和私人保险。这篇框架文章将这些论文置于关于风险和安全政府的长期学术研究的基础上。它还描述了贯穿论文的三个主题：气候变化的节约；风险和责任的道德经济；保险的可塑性作为一种抽象技术，可以以各种政治项目的名义在各种政府团体中采用。