Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism : Flint, MI in Context (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Benz, Terressa A. (EDT)/ Cassano, Graham (EDT)

Brill（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 454 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004446168
• DDC分類 363.610977437

Full Description

This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination disaster in the context of a broader crisis of 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, but with an emphasis upon comparison, calling 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.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

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

Index