Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Flint, MI in Context

Terressa A. Benz, Graham Cassano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

454 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44616-8 (ISBN)

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Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context examines the malfeasance and mismanagement that poisoned a city’s water. The authors emphasize the structural forces that engendered the water crisis, and, especially, the long history of racial oppression, racist government policies, and everyday forms of inequality, that shape the life chances for Flint’s residents.

Terressa A. Benz received her Ph.D in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine (2011). 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 (1991). 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 (Brill, 2014).

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 184
Zusatzinfo	11 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	903 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-44616-8 / 9004446168
ISBN-13	978-90-04-44616-8 / 9789004446168
Zustand	Neuware