Between Catastrophe and Revolution

It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom "e;every day is judgment day"e; (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis-in typical wry fashion-once referred to as the field of "e;disaster studies."e; Collectively, they show how our "e;disaster imaginary"e; has been rendered inadequate by the existing order's abili...