Kanishka Goonewardena (University of Toronto) - Mike Davis as Theoretician and Storyteller
Abstract: What makes Mike Davis--the author of such coruscating works as听City of Quartz听补苍诲听Late Victorian Holocausts--one of the greatest writers of our time? Although there鈥檚 widespread acknowledgement of the incomparable range and radicality of Davis, whose听oeuvre听encompasses urbanization, political ecology and class struggle, the extraordinary scholarly achievement of this former meat cutter, truck driver, Getty Scholar and MacArthur Fellow as a historian, journalist and editor of听New Left Review听remains to be adequately assessed. I therefore argue that Davis鈥檚 writings, of inherent interest to geographers, planners and activists, are distinguished by his Marxist theoretical sensibility and听art听of storytelling.
厂辫别补办别谤:听, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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