{"product_id":"urban-emergency-mis-management-and-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-flint-mi-in-context-9789004446168","title":"Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Flint, MI in Context","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrban 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210813333847,"sku":"9789004446168","price":241.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-emergency-mis-management-and-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism-flint-mi-in-context-9789004446168","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}