Event
Kanishka Goonewardena (University of Toronto) - Mike Davis as Theoretician and Storyteller
Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00to13:00
Burnside Hall
Room 426, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Abstract: What makes Mike Davis--the author of such coruscating works asÌýCity of QuartzÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýLate Victorian Holocausts--one of the greatest writers of our time? Although there’s widespread acknowledgement of the incomparable range and radicality of Davis, whoseÌýoeuvreÌýencompasses urbanization, political ecology and class struggle, the extraordinary scholarly achievement of this former meat cutter, truck driver, Getty Scholar and MacArthur Fellow as a historian, journalist and editor ofÌýNew Left ReviewÌýremains to be adequately assessed. I therefore argue that Davis’s writings, of inherent interest to geographers, planners and activists, are distinguished by his Marxist theoretical sensibility andÌýartÌýof storytelling.
³§±è±ð²¹°ì±ð°ù:Ìý, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
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Kanishka Goonewardena
I was introduced to questions concerning space, Marxism and imperialism in Sri Lanka, where I was trained in architecture at the University of Moratuwa and worked as an architect at the Urban Development Authority. After a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, I specialized in 'critical theory' during my doctoral studies at Cornell University, Ithaca--with special attention to Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács, Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci and Fredric Jameson.
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