Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Terressa A. Benz ,  Graham Cassano
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9781642597912

ISBN 10:   1642597910
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   06 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of 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

Reviews

Author Information

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).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions