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beyond the original 1986 disaster. In her discursive account of the relationship between Insurtech and its companies’ buildings, McFall also provides
a graphic account of the enmeshment of earth, air, and data. Airy contemporary insurance offices stand in stark contrast to the weighty stone buildings of the 19th-century insurance companies. This entwinning appears to
warrant future attention in understanding the elemental co-constitute of
insurance in a climatically shifting world.
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Booth, K & Kendal, D 2020, ‘Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency
in places of marketization and financialization’, Environment and Planning A:
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Lehtonen, T 2017, ‘Objectifying climate change: Weather-related catastrophes as
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beyond the original 1986 disaster. In her discursive account of the relationship between Insurtech and its companies’ buildings, McFall also provides
a graphic account of the enmeshment of earth, air, and data. Airy contemporary insurance offices stand in stark contrast to the weighty stone buildings of the 19th-century insurance companies. This entwinning appears to
warrant future attention in understanding the elemental co-constitute of
insurance in a climatically shifting world.
References
Booth, K 2021, ‘Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions’, Progress in
Human Geography, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 1295–310.
Booth, K & Kendal, D 2020, ‘Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency
in places of marketization and financialization’, Environment and Planning A:
Economy and Space, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 728–746.
Ewald, F 1991 ‘Insurance and risk’, In, Burchell, G, Gordon, C. & Miller, P. (eds)
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Hertfordshire, UK: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, pp. 197–210.
French, S & Kneale, J 2015, ‘Insuring biofinance: Alcohol, risk and the limits of life’,
Economic Sociology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 16–24.
Harvey, D 2007, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford, UK: Oxford University
Press.
Ingold, T 2008, ‘Bindings against boundaries: entanglements of life in an open
world’, Environment and Planning A, vol. 40, pp. 1796–1810.
Irigaray, I 1999, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger, London, UK: Athlon
Press.
Law, J & Mol, A 2001, ‘Situating technoscience: An inquiry into spatialities’,
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 19, pp. 609–621.
Lehtonen, T 2017, ‘Objectifying climate change: Weather-related catastrophes as
risks and opportunities for reinsurance’, Political Theory, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 32–51.
Lobo-Guerrero, L 2014, ‘The capitalisation of ‘excess life’ through life insurance’,
Global Society, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 300–316.
O’Hare, P, White, I & Connelly, A 2015, ‘Insurance as maladaptation: Resilience
and the ‘business as usual’ paradox’, Environment and Planning C: Government
and Policy, vol. 34, no. 16, pp. 1175–1193.
Pike, A & Pollard, J 2010, ‘Economic geographies of financialization’, Economic
Geography, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 29–51.
Watkins, J 2015, ‘Spatial imaginaries research in geography: Synergies, tensions,
and new directions’, Geography Compass, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 508–522.