His rural childhood was typical: conservative in politics, religion, and culture. As an adolescent, he learned to cut meat and deliver wholesale orders. His father was a meat cutter who relocated the family to Bostonia, a small agricultural hamlet outside El Cajon in San Diego County, where his uncle owned a wholesale meat business. Michael Ryan Davis was born in Fontana, Calif., on March 10, 1946, and was one of three children in his working-class parents’ family, who had migrated from Ohio during the Great Depression. His 15 critical books had seismic impacts on research agendas in academia, inspired public intellectuals such as Naomi Klein, Susan Faludi, Rubén Martínez, Arundhati Roy, and others, and were seminal in the development of “Los Angeles Studies” in the humanities and social sciences at U.S. He also authored three lesser-known children’s books, a genre he loved from reading to his four children, with Perceval Press, which is owned by his friend Viggo Mortenson, the well-regarded Hollywood actor in Los Angeles’s current socialist, popular front. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side.ĭavis was a prolific Marxist journalist, historian, trade union activist, architecture and urban critic, and public intellectual best known for his 1990 book City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso), and also Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Holt-Metropolitan, 1998), Late Victorian Holocausts: El Ni ño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Verso, 2001), Planet of Slums (Verso, 2006), and eleven other well received books covering viral pandemics, the history of the car bomb, the labor movement and Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s, San Diego’s corrupt history, urban dreamworlds of late capitalism in the post-communist world, among other wide ranging topics. Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct.
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