Security/Capital

George S. Rigakos is Professor of the Political Economy of Policing at Carleton University. He has researched and published on policing and security for over a dozen years. Rigakos is also the Editor of Red Quill Books and is one of the founding members of the Anti-security Studies Group. Most recently he has acted as a policy consultant with Syriza and Transform Europe.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Security Under Capitalism; 1. Productive Labour; 2. Dispossession; 3. Exploitation; 4. The Security Commodity; 5. Security is Hegemony; 6. The Productivity of Security; Conclusions: Security After Capitalism; Bibliography; Index.

In an age when capital wins time and again and everyone from politicians to academics insist that we must all bow down in the name of security, this book challenges the power of both. The outcome is a radical deployment of the concept of pacification which will transform our understanding of the wars carried out in the name of security/capital.