Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Essays in Honor of Mike Davis
It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom every day is judgment day (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis-in typical wry fashion-once referred to as the field of disaster studies. Collectively, they show how our disaster imaginary has been rendered inadequate by the existing order's ability to feed off and coopt our resistance to it.Contemporary mass protests are now subsumed as instances of an established, profitable politics of rage. Geopolitical conflict poses not as a threat to hegemonic power but rather serves the interests of a global market whi…
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Weitere Autoren: Sorkin, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-68219-279-5
- EAN: 9781682192795
- Produktnummer: 37837223
- Verlag: OR Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is professor of Geography and Middle East Studies. He is the author of An Aesthetic Occupation, as well as a number of other studies on the territorial and spatial practices of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Monk is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security [SSRC-CIPS], as well as a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship [WWICS] for his contributions to research on contemporary conflict.Michael Sorkin was Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. He served as president of Terreform, a nonprofit urban research and advocacy center, publisher and editor of UR Books, and architecture critic for The Nation. Sorkin passed away from Covid-19 on 26 March 2020.
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