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.
Edited by:
Terressa A. Benz,
Graham Cassano
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642597912
ISBN 10: 1642597910
Series: Studies in Critical Social Science
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
