Evil paradises
Subtitle: dreamworlds of neoliberalism
By: edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk
Contributors: Davis, Mike, 1946-; Monk, Daniel Bertrand, 1960-
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781595580764
Subjects: Capitalism -- History; Neoliberalism -- History; Social problems -- History; Economic history -- 1990-; Social history -- 1970-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-317) and index
Table of contents: title: Dreamland / Timothy Mitchell; title: Arg-e Jadid : a California oasis in the Iranian Desert / Marina Forti; title: Sand, fear, and money in Dubai / Mike Davis; title: Capital of chaos : the new Kabul of warlords and infidels / Anthony Fontenot and Ajmal Maiwandi; title: Delirious Beijing : euphoria and despair in the olympic metropolis / Anne-Marie Broudehoux; title: "Palm Springs" : imagineering California in Hong Kong / Laura Ruggeri; title: Johannesburg : of gold and gangsters / Patrick Bond; title: "Nueva Managua" : the disembedded city / Dennis Rodgers; title: Becoming bourgeois : (postsocialist) utopias of isolation and civilization / Judit Bodnár; title: "Extreme makeover" : Medellín in the new millennium / Forrest Hylton; title: The most unjust country in the world / Emir Sader; title: Bunkering in paradise (or, do oldsters dream of electric golf carts?) / Marco d'Eramo; title: Careless people : it's the real housewives of Orange County's world; the rest of us just live in it / Rebecca Schoenkopf; title: "Hell is other people" : Ted Turner's two million acres / Jon Wiener; title: People like hicks : the Supreme Court announces the antiurban city / Don Mitchell; title: Hubrispace : personal museums and the architectures of self-deification / Joe Day; title: Monastery chic : the ascetic retreat in a neoliberal age / Sara Lipton; title: Floating utopias : freedom and unfreedom of the seas / China Miéville; title: Hives and swarms : on the "nature" of neoliberalism and the rise of the ecological insurgent / Daniel Bertrand Monk