Between catastrophe and revolution : essays in honor of Mike Davis / edited by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Michael Sorkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monk, Daniel Bertrand, 1960- editor.

Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020, editor.

Davis, Mike, 1946-2022, honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters.

Disasters--Political aspects.

Disasters--Social aspects.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

viii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : OR Books, [2021]

Contents:

Preface "How about just plain 'catastrophe and revolution'?" / Daniel Bertrand Monk

Introduction: A dialectic of catastrophe and revolution / Daniel Bertrand Monk

A sorrowful storm : between penitence and anthropolitics in the anthropocene / Mauro J. Caraccioli

Planetary events, climate catastrophes, and the limits of the human sciences / William E. Connolly and Jairus Grove

A late neoliberal holocaust / Don Mitchell

Settler colonial urbanism : from Waawiyaataanong to Detroit at Little Caesars arena / Andrew Herscher

Steel bloom : lineages and landmarks of borderland violence / Ana Muñiz

Where did the future go? : notes on the fantasies and strategies of the hyper-right from the United States to Brazil / Bruno Carvalho

Eruptions of rage / Mustafa Dikeç

A theory of the Middle East : oil for insecurity, permanent war, and the political economy of late imperial America / Jacob Mundy

Maximalist elites and the ecological burden of southern history / Christian Parenti

Aviation, hijackings, and the eclipse of the "American century" in the Middle East / Waleed Hazbun

Lineages of infrastructural power : Los Angeles as a logical nightmare / Charmaine Chua

Death cults of East Anglia / China Miéville

The calculus of climate change / Andrew Ross

Gated ecologies / Rob Wallace, Kenichi Okamoto, and Alex Liebman

Othering the mall / Michael Sorkin

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781682192771

1682192776

OCLC:

1255215286