Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and approximately 16,308 hectares have been burned. The fires are already among the most destructive in California’s recorded history.
And as happens when major fires erupt in Los Angeles, radical (Marxist) urban historian M...