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Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster
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Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. As he surveys the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, the invasion of "man-eating" mountain lions, the movie Volcano, and even Los Angeles's underrated tornado problem, he exposes the deep complicity between social injustice and perceptions of natural disorder. Arguing that  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mike Davis
ISBN: 0805051066 9780805051063
OCLC Number: 38258057
Description: 484 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Mike Davis.
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In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. As he surveys the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, the invasion of "man-eating" mountain lions, the movie Volcano, and even Los Angeles's underrated tornado problem, he exposes the deep complicity between social injustice and perceptions of natural disorder. Arguing that paranoia about nature obscures the fact that Los Angeles has deliberately put itself in harm's way, Davis reveals how market-driven urbanization has for generations transgressed against environmental common sense. And he shows that the floods, fires, and earthquakes reaped by the city were tragedies as avoidable - and unnatural - as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets.

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