Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. Wikipedia
BY VERONIQUE DE TURENNE T here's a lovely fountain at the top of the Bunker Hill steps in downtown Los Angeles, and that's where Mike Davis and I are spending Sunday afternoon. www.salon.com/it/feature/1998/12/cov_07feature.html
Salon , the on-line magazine, has published three attacks on Davis; New Times LA , a free weekly, has published four; Suck , the Webzine of Wired magazine, has published two; and it's not over yet. www.thenation.com/doc/19990222/wiener
Today, however, Mike Davis offers an on-the-spot report from the epicenter of Southern California's conflagrations, San Diego where he lives. www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1032
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Mike Davis. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar)
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Mike Davis. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_%28scholar%29
In 1990, Mike Davis published what he refers to as a difficult, Marxist treatment of Los Angeles called City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. www.believermag.com/issues/200402/?read=interview_davis
This issue of Mute , largely sparked by Mike Davis claim that in the megaslums Muhammad and the Holy Ghost have superceded Marx, considers another view of the worlds burgeoning naked cities. www.metamute.org/Naked-Cities-Struggle-in-the-Global-Slums