Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

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).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Flint Sacrifice ZoneTerressa A. Benz and Graham CassanoPART 1Structure in Context1 Neoliberalism, Urban Policy and Environmental DegradationDavid Fasenfest2 Colorblind MichiganThe Legal Impossibility of Environmental Justice in Flint and Southwest DetroitTerressa A. Benz3 Stockton Isn’t Flint, or Is It? Race and Space in Comparative Crisis Driven UrbanizationRaoul S. Liévanos and Julie Sze4 Too Close to HomeThe Incidence and Health Effects of Neighborhood Neglect in Flint, MichiganKatrinell M. Davis5 Housing WasteThe Lakeside Public Housing Complex, Pontiac, MichiganGraham Cassano, Jon Carroll and Daniel J. ClarkPART 2Reaction and Resistance6 Technocracy and PopulismRemaking Urban Governance in Post-Democratic FlintJacob Lederman7 Waging Love from Detroit to FlintMichael Doan, Shea Howell and Ami Harbin8 Bottling Public ThirstScarcity, Abundance, and the Exploitation of “Need” in Mid-MichiganA.E. Garrison9 Lead Does (Not) DiscriminateEnvironmental Racism in Expert and Popular DiscourseBenjamin J. PauliAfterword: The Flint Water Crisis, KWA and Strategic-Structural RacismWritten Testimony Submitted to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission Hearings on the Flint Water CrisisPeter J. HammerIndex