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Author:   Terressa A. Benz ,  Graham Cassano
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   184
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9789004446168

ISBN 10:   9004446168
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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This book will be especially valuable to students and scholars of post-industrial metropolitan governments facing economic and/or environmental crises. --J.F. Bauman, emeritus, California University of Pennsylvania, USA. In CHOICE vol. 59 no. 10 (June 2022).

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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).

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