Davis, Mike, 1946-2022, author.

Ecology of fear : Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster / Mike Davis.

New York : Verso, 2022.
©2022

484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life; the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909, with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of "the American century."-- Publisher description

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Disasters California Los Angeles.
Social problems California Los Angeles.
Problèmes sociaux Californie Los Angeles.
Catastrophes Californie Los Angeles.
Disasters
Ecology
Social conditions
Social problems
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Environmental conditions.
California Los Angeles

Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster

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