ABSTRACT
The international financial and economic crisis has brought the state back into the economic scene, neoliberal rhetoric and policies appear for what they are: a recipe for disaster, Obama's election to the United States' (US') presidency has wiped out the call for and justification of 'preventive wars', but even more importantly his victory has brought back a sense of hope in the future. It is mainly women who face the burden of thriftiness, and in general of care for the family such as to withstand the crisis. The author discusses two books published after he wrote his book, as many of the issues presented here are analysed there, but with different conclusions. He links two aspects under the label of prevention: Jonathan Simon takes on the issue of how fear is at the bottom of a type of government widespread in the US, while Nicholas Rose examines the paradigm of self and government emerging from molecular biology and genetics.
