Detroit to Flint and back again: Solidarity forever
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Department/School
History and Philosophy
Publication Title
Critical Sociology
Abstract
For several years the authors have been working in Detroit with grassroots coalitions resisting Emergency Management. In this essay, we focus on how community groups in Detroit and Flint advanced common struggles for clean, safe, affordable water as a human right, particularly during the period of 2014 to 2016. We explore how, through a series of direct interventions – including public meetings and international gatherings, independent journalism and social media, community-based research projects, and citizen-led policy initiatives – these groups contributed to challenging neoliberal governance, to undermining the legitimacy of state officials and their policies, and to shifting public consciousness around the human right to water.
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Recommended Citation
Howell, S., Doan, M. D., & Harbin, A. (2019). Detroit to Flint and back again: Solidarity forever. Critical Sociology, 45(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920517705438