Mike Davis (scholar) - Wikipedia
WEBMichael Ryan Davis (March 10, 1946 – October 25, 2022) was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts.
Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76
WEBOct. 26, 2022. Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote of catastrophes faced by and awaiting humankind, and especially Los Angeles, died on...
Column: Mike Davis has terminal cancer. But his big worry is what …
WEBJul 22, 2022 · The Jeremiah of Southern California — the writer equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.
‘Marxist environmentalist’ and author Mike Davis dies at 76
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” Mike Davis has died at 76. Davis died Tuesday after a long battle with esophageal cancer according to his friend Jon Wiener.
Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz,' dies - Los Angeles Times
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Davis, a writer whose work exposed L.A.’s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and whose mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible, died...
Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz,' dies at 76 - NPR
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Mike Davis, a kind of tectonic-plate thinker whose books transformed how people, in Los Angeles in particular, understood their world, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego at the age of...
The key to Mike Davis’ brilliance: He never fit in - Los Angeles Times
WEBOct 26, 2022 · Mike Davis, who died Tuesday, was both a towering public intellectual and — crucially — a perpetual outsider and dissident, writes his co-author, Jon Wiener.
Mike Davis (1946 - 2022) - Los Angeles Public Library
WEBOct 28, 2022 · On Tuesday, October 25, Mike Davis, the towering left-wing polemicist, passed away at his home in San Diego at the age of 76. Accessible and hard-hitting in the greatest journalism tradition, Davis leaves a most rigorous, expansive, and idiocratic political bibliography.
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 - The Nation
WEBOct 25, 2022 · Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76. He’s best known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City...
Mike Davis, who chronicled L.A. and warned of disaster, dies at 76
WEBOct 27, 2022 · Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires, pandemics and other disasters, especially in Los Angeles,...