
Evil Paradises
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Daniel Bertrand Monk is the director of the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University and the author of An Aesthetic Occupation. He lives in Hamilton, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Dreamland
- 2: Arg-e Jadid: A California Oasisin the Iranian Desert
- 3: Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai
- 4: Capital of Chaos: The New Kabul of Warlords and Infidels
- 5: Delirious Beijing: Euphoria and Despair in the Olympic Metropolis
- 6: "Palm Springs": Imagineering California in Hong Kong
- 7: Johannesburg: Of Gold and Gangsters
- 8: "Nueva Managua": The Disembedded City
- 9: Becoming Bourgeois: (Postsocialist) Utopias of Isolation and Civilization
- 10: "Extreme Makeover": Medellín in the New Millennium
- 11: The Most Unjust Country in the World
- 12: Bunkering in Paradise (or, Do Oldsters Dream of Electric Golf Carts?)
- 13: Careless People: It's the Real Housewives of Orange County's World
- The Rest of Us Just Live in It
- 14: "Hell Is Other People": Ted Turner's Two Million Acres
- 15: People Like Hicks: The Supreme Court Announces the Antiurban City
- 16: Hubrispace: Personal Museums and the Architectures of Self-Deification
- 17: Monastery Chic: The Ascetic Retreatin a Neoliberal Age
- 18: Floating Utopias: Freedom and Unfreedom of the Seas
- 19: Hives and Swarms: On the "Nature" of Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Ecological Insurgent
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
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