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Selling the Future
- Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
Engelsk Hardback
Selling the Future
- Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
Engelsk Hardback

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In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consumers to deal with every contingency on their own, insurance industry administrators argued that their usage of statistical data enabled them to chart the predictable future for the aggregate. Through insurance, companies and the state thus offered consumers a means to a perfectible future in an era filled with repeated crises. Life insurance functioned as an important modernist technology within Japan and its colonies to instantiate expectations for responsibility, to reconfigure meanings of mutuality, and to normalize new social formations (such as the nuclear family) as essential to life. Life insurance thus offers an important vehicle for examining the confluence of modes of mobilizing and organizing bodies, the expropriation of financial resources, and the action of disciplining workers into a capitalist system.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501773297
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501773291
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2024
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2024
Forfatter(e):
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