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Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Flint, Mi in Context

Beschreibung

Urban 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.

Autor

Terressa A. Benz received her Ph.D in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine (2011). 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 (1991). 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 (Brill, 2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 903g
• ISBN-13: 9789004446168
• ISBN-10: 9004446168
• Artikelnr.: 60664449