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Title

Detroit to Flint and back again: Solidarity forever

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

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.

ISSN

0896-9205

Link to Published Version

10.1177/0896920517705438

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