Evil Paradises
Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places-alternate realities being constructed as utopias in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments-in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea-are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as The World is literally being added to the ocean. In Medellín and Kabul, drug lords-in many…
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Weitere Autoren: Monk, Daniel Bertrand (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59558-778-7
- EAN: 9781595587787
- Produktnummer: 22228155
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 585 KB
Über den Autor
MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is the author of Monster at Our Door and Dead Cities (The New Press), among other books. He lives in San Diego. Daniel Bertrand Monk is the director of the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University and the author of An Aesthetic Occupation. He lives in Hamilton, New York.
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