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Articles by Mike Davis
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The Last White Election?
in NLR 79, January-February 2013, pp. 5-52
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
Panoramic survey of America’s political landscape as revealed by November’s vote, with age, gender, ethnicity and geography the volatile determinants of Obama’s victory. Within an increasingly polarized ideological force field, how will the coming struggles unfold between Democratic President and Senate and a Republican House, itself consumed by turmoil?
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Spring Confronts Winter
in NLR 72, November-December 2011, pp. 5-15
Subjects: World Economy and Globalization , Movements
Echoes of past rebellions in 2011’s global upsurge of protest. Against a backdrop of world economic slump, what forces will shape the outcome of contests between a raddled system and its emergent challengers?
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Who Will Build the Ark?
in NLR 61, January-February 2010, pp. 29-46
Subjects: Environment , Cities
Copenhagen’s charades dispel any illusion that world rulers intend to deal with the environmental damage industrialization has caused. Mike Davis argues that green urbanism’s twining of social equality and ecological sustainability could offer an alternative starting-point.
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Obama at Manassas
in NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 5-40
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
Does Obama’s victory signal a political turning point comparable to 1980 or 1932? Mike Davis maps county-level changes, from below—minority-majority demographics, subprime suburbs, white-collar financial worries—catalysed by the 2008 campaign. From above, realignment of American capital behind the Silicon President.
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The Democrats After November
in NLR 43, January-February 2007, pp. 5-31
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
With anti-war sentiment growing—if still passive—in the US, how will Democrats use their recapture of Congress? Mike Davis analyses likely outcomes on the questions—Iraq, corruption, economic insecurity—that confront a Party leadership hooked on corporate dollars, and myopically gazing towards 2008.
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Fear and Money in Dubai
in NLR 41, September-October 2006, pp. 47-68
Subjects: Arab World , World Economy and Globalization , Cities
On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that sustains them.
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Planet of Slums
in NLR 26, March-April 2004, pp. 5-34
Subjects: Anthropology , Social Theory
Future history of the Third World’s post-industrial megacities. A billion-strong global proletariat ejected from the formal economy, with Islam and Pentecostalism as songs of the dispossessed.
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The Flames of New York
in NLR 12, November-December 2001, pp. 34-50
Subjects: United States
Premonitions and hallucinations of the fate of the Twin Towers, from H. G. Wells to Ernst Bloch, John Dos Passos to Sayyid Qutb. Today’s Palmer raids and tomorrow’s ‘security cities’ as first instalments in the globalization of fear.
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City
in NLR I/234, March-April 1999, pp. 3-43
Subjects: Aesthetics , Latin America and the Caribbean , Social Theory , United States
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Also available in Spanish - Cosmic Dancers on History's Stage? The Permanent Revolution in the Earth Sciences
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The Dead West; Ecocide in Marlboro Country
in NLR I/200, July-August 1993, pp. 49-73
Subjects: Science , United States , Environment
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Who Killed Los Angeles? Part Two: The Verdict is Given
in NLR I/199, May-June 1993, pp. 29-54
Subjects: United States
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Who Killed Los Angeles? A Political Autopsy
in NLR I/197, January-February 1993, pp. 3-28
Subjects: United States
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Los Angeles: Civil Liberties between the Hammer and the Rock
in NLR I/170, July-August 1988, pp. 37-60
Subjects: United States
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'Chinatown', Part Two? The 'Internationalization' of Downtown Los Angeles
in NLR I/164, July-August 1987, pp. 65-86
Subjects: United States
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The Lesser Evil? The Left and the Democratic Party
in NLR I/155, January-February 1986, pp. 5-36
Subjects: United States
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Urban Renaissance and the Spirit of Postmodernism
in NLR I/151, May-June 1985, pp. 106-113
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Reaganomics' Magical Mystery Tour
in NLR I/149, January-February 1985, pp. 45-65
Subjects: United States
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The Political Economy of Late-Imperial America
in NLR I/143, January-February 1984, pp. 6-38
Subjects: United States
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The AFL-CIO's Second Century
in NLR I/136, November-December 1982, pp. 43-54
Subjects: United States , Labour Movements and Parties
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The New Right's Road to Power
in NLR I/128, July-August 1981, pp. 28-49
Subjects: United States
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The Barren Marriage of American Labour and the Democratic Party
in NLR I/124, November-December 1980, pp. 43-84
Subjects: United States
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Why the US Working Class Is Different
in NLR I/123, September-October 1980, pp. 3-44
Subjects: United States
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