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Abstract

In this paper, I critically interrogate the expectation that insurance is becoming more present through the processes of financialisation and marketisation - as up-to-date policies and/or in the hearts and minds of consumers. I draw upon interviews about house and contents insurance, with householders in the flammable landscapes of south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. The participants identify these landscapes as resilient and permanent and thus ultimately unaffected by fire. In understanding bush-living as co-constituted with fire and not purely threatened by fire, they experience a strong sense of continuance in these places. In this context, the promise of insurance emerges as contingent, and even if an up-to-date policy is present, insurance moves in and out of focus, is present and becomes absent as various human and non-human actants exert agency. Drawing on critical landscape studies in exploring these spatial contingencies, I observe insuring as landscaping practice. As well as contributing to critical insurance studies and financialisation of everyday life research, I provide a signpost for rethinking the role of insurance in disaster management and climate adaptation.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Booth, K
Keywords:	fire, financialisation, insurance, landscape, marketisation
Journal or Publication Title:	Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	2514-8486
DOI / ID Number:	10.1177/2514848620921859
Copyright Information:	Copyright The Author(s) 2020
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Booth, K UTAS Profile: Booth, K
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