Urban emergency (mis)management and the crisis of neoliberalism : : Flint, MI in context /

Urban emergency (mis)management and the crisis of neoliberalism : : Flint, MI in context / / edited by Terressa A. Benz and Graham Cassano.

This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination disaster in the context of a broader crisis of neoliberal governance in the United States. Authors from a range of disciplines (including sociology, criminal justice, anthropology, history, communications, and jurisprudence) examine the fai...

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Superior document:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 184
TeilnehmendeR:
Benz, Terressa A.,
Cassano, Graham,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 184.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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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
  • Where We Are Today
  • Stigmatizing Michigan's (post-industrial) Sacrifice Zones
  • Prospectus of the Work
  • CHAPTERS
  • PART I STRUCTURE IN CONTEXT
  • 1. Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental Degradation
  • David Fasenfest
  • Introduction
  • Racial Politics and Subjectivities of Michigan's EM Process
  • Roots of Neoliberalism
  • Michigan's Municipal Financial Emergency Laws
  • A Tale of Two Frameworks
  • What Did EMs Do?
  • Short Term Fixes, Long Term Viability and Local Austerity
  • The Environmental Impact of Strategic and Structural Racism
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Colorblind Michigan: The Legal Impossibility of Environmental Justice in Flint and Southwest Detroit
  • Terressa A. Benz
  • Introduction
  • Environmental Caste Systems
  • Neoliberalism
  • Equal Protection in Practice
  • Environmental (lack of) Regulation
  • The "state" of Michigan
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Stockton Isn't Flint, or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven Urbanization
  • Raoul S. Lievanos and Julie Sze
  • Introduction
  • Recasting Crisis Driven Urbanization: Race and Space
  • Racialized Crisis Driven Urbanization
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Too Close to Home: The Incidence and Health Effects of Neighborhood Neglect in Flint, Michigan
  • Katrinell M. Davis
  • Introduction
  • The Impact of Dwelling Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status on Lead Exposure
  • Data and Method
  • The Significance of Independent Variables
  • Hypotheses
  • Results
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • 5. Housing Waste: The Lakeside Public Housing Complex, Pontiac, Michigan
  • Graham Cassano, Jon Carroll, and Daniel J. Clark
  • Introduction
  • The Lakeside Housing Complex, 1950-2002
  • Contexts: Demographic Change and Deindustrialization
  • After Demolition: Bankruptcy and Emergency Management in Pontiac.
  • PART II: REACTION AND RESISTANCE
  • 6. Technocracy and Populism: Remaking Urban Governance in Post-Democratic Flint
  • Jacob Lederman
  • Introduction
  • Populism and Neoliberal Politics
  • Democracy's Unwanted Other
  • Neoliberalism, Politics, and Populism
  • "Rightsizing" as Dispossession
  • Overview of a Master Planning Process
  • Greenlining the Periphery
  • Conflict-Free Zones: Collaboration and Cooptation
  • Planning Utopias
  • The Centrality of Markets
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Waging Love from Detroit to Flint
  • Michael Doan, Shea Howell, Ami Harbin
  • Resisting Emergency Management in Michigan
  • Emergency Management and Mass Water Shutoffs
  • Stop the Shutoffs!
  • International Connections and United Nations Visit
  • Conflicting Values, Visions, and Narratives
  • Water Affordability vs. Assistance
  • Free the Water!
  • Flint Healing Stories
  • International Social Movements Gathering
  • Detroit to Flint Water Justice Journey
  • Grassroots Journalism and Filmmaking
  • Press Conference, Teach-in, People's Tribunal
  • Epilogue: Five Years & Counting
  • 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
  • A (Relatively) Brief Conceptual History of "Environmental Racism"
  • Racism in the Water?: Expert and Popular Perspectives on Race and the Flint Water Crisis
  • Conclusion
  • 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
  • I. Flint, Municipal Distress, Emergency Management and Strategic-Structural Racism
  • II. KWA, DEQ, Treasury, Emergency Managers, and Strategic Racism
  • III. The Perfect Storm of Strategic and Structural Racism: Conflicts, Complicity, Indifference and the Lack of an Appropriate Political Response
  • IV. Conclusion
  • INDEX.

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