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Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Flint, MI in Context

Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Edited by Terressa A. Benz and Graham Cassano

Published by: Haymarket Books

Imprint: Haymarket Books

416 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9781642597912
Published: September 2022

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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.

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).

Graham Cassano is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, in Rochester Michigan and an associate editor of Critical Sociology. He publishes on social theory and the relationship of New Deal cinema to class formation in the US.

Richard Ricardo” A. Dello Buono, Ph.D. (Boston College, 1986) in Social Economy, is Chair of the Department of Sociology, Manhattan College. He has lectured at various Latin American universities and his research areas include comparative social problems and Latin American/Caribbean Studies.

Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Flint, MI in Context

Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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