Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Flint, MI in Context

Terressa A. Benz, Graham Cassano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2022
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-791-2 (ISBN)

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A timely, and incisive analysis of the policies that created Flint's drinking water crises, and will do the same elsewhere.

This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination disaster in the context of a broader crisis created by neoliberal governance in the United States. Authors from a range of disciplines (including sociology, criminal justice, anthropology, history, communications, and jurisprudence) examine the failures in Flint, with an emphasis on comparison. Their analysis calls attention to similar trajectories for cities like Detroit and Pontiac, in Michigan, and Stockton, in California. While the studies collected here emphasize policy failures, class conflict, and racial oppression, they also attend to the resistance undertaken by Flint residents, Michiganders, and U.S. activists, as they fought for environmental and social justice.

Contributors include: Terressa A. Benz, Jon Carroll, Graham Cassano, Daniel J. Clark, Katrinell M. Davis, Michael Doan, David Fasenfest, A.E. Garrison, Peter J. Hammer, Ami Harbin, Shea Howell, Jacob Lederman, Raoul S. Lievanos, Benjamin J. Pauli, and Julie Sze.

Terressa A. Benz received her Ph.D in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. She is the author, most recently, of Black Femininity and Stand Your Ground: Controlling Images and the Elusive Defense of Self-Defense (Critical Sociology, forthcoming). Graham Cassano received his Ph.D in Sociology from Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on social theory, racial and ethnic history, and the sociology of culture, including A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Haymarket, 2015).

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Flint Sacrifice Zone

Terressa A. Benz and Graham Cassano

PART 1

Structure in Context

1 Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation

David Fasenfest

2 Colorblind Michigan

The Legal Impossibility of Environmental Justice in Flint and Southwest Detroit

Terressa A. Benz

3 Stockton Isn’t Flint, or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven Urbanization

Raoul S. Liévanos and Julie Sze

4 Too Close to Home

The Incidence and Health Effects of Neighborhood Neglect in Flint, Michigan

Katrinell M. Davis

5 Housing Waste

The Lakeside Public Housing Complex, Pontiac, Michigan

Graham Cassano, Jon Carroll and Daniel J. Clark

PART 2

Reaction and Resistance

6 Technocracy and Populism

Remaking Urban Governance in Post-Democratic Flint

Jacob Lederman

7 Waging Love from Detroit to Flint

Michael Doan, Shea Howell and Ami Harbin

8 Bottling Public Thirst

Scarcity, Abundance, and the Exploitation of “Need” in Mid-Michigan

A.E. Garrison

9 Lead Does (Not) Discriminate

Environmental Racism in Expert and Popular Discourse

Benjamin J. Pauli

Afterword: The Flint Water Crisis, KWA and Strategic-Structural Racism

Written Testimony Submitted to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission Hearings on the Flint Water Crisis

Peter J. Hammer

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Science
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-64259-791-0 / 1642597910
ISBN-13	978-1-64259-791-2 / 9781642597912
Zustand	Neuware