Mike Davis (scholar)

Mike Davis is an American Social Commentator , urban theorist, and Sociographer . He is best known for his investigations of Social Class structures in his native Southern California .

Born in 1946 in Fontana, California , Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) activist. He briefly studied at Reed College in the mid-1960s but did not begin his academic career in earnest until the early 1970s , when he earned BA and MA degrees in History from the University Of California, Los Angeles . He received a MacArthur Fellowship Award in 1998, and has been a fellow at the Getty Institute .

Davis currently teaches at the University Of California, Irvine , and contributes to the British monthly '' Socialist Review '', the organ of the Socialist Workers Party Of Great Britain . He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party Of Ireland .

Davis is a self-defined "Marxist-Environmentalist". {Link without Title}

MAJOR WORKS

''Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World'' (2001)

EXTERNAL LINKS

Articles on TomDispatch

ARTICLES BY DAVIS

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