Mike Davis
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Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
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| instanceOf |
Marxist intellectual
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human ⓘ urban theorist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
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MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | esophageal cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-10-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Reed College
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of the Arts
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University of California, Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, Riverside NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental history
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political economy ⓘ social history ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political writing ⓘ urban studies literature ⓘ |
| movement | Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critical analysis of Los Angeles as a paradigmatic neoliberal city
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linking urbanization, global capitalism, and environmental catastrophe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Cities, and Other Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World NERFINISHED ⓘ Planet of Slums NERFINISHED ⓘ Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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essayist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fontana, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| residence | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alison Pearlman
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Kelly Candaele NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalia Ana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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