Tainted tap : Flint's journey from crisis to recovery /

"After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Davis, Katrinell (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press [2021]
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469662121_davis
目次:
  • Part I. Before Evidence of Lead Contamination Surfaced in Flint's Water. Flint during the model cities era: the challenges to community advocacy
  • The ecology of dreams deferred: neoliberalism, wrecker of environments, comes to Flint
  • Turning a cold shoulder: the government's response to citizen complaints about Flint's water
  • A tale of two Flints: conflicts among residents concerning the city's water
  • Part II. After Evidence of Lead Contamination Surfaced in Flint's Water. Lights, cameras, interventions: the Flint crisis in the national spotlight
  • The blame game: a legal circus and public finger pointing
  • Crisis as a daily grind: digging up water pipes whether or not they need to be
  • Conclusion. "Flint ain't fixed."