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Book SynopsisUrban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context examines the malfeasance and mismanagement that poisoned a city’s water. The authors emphasize the structural forces that engendered the water crisis, and, especially, the long history of racial oppression, racist government policies, and everyday forms of inequality, that shape the life chances for Flint’s residents.
Trade Review"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).
Table of ContentsList 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
