1media/Flint.jpg2024-08-13T20:49:41+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb13814An overview of the Flint water crisisimage_header82662024-08-15T13:39:54+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbIn April 2014 the city of Flint, Michigan changed its water supply from the regulated supply from the Detroit Water and Sewer Department to a cheaper but ultimately hazardous supply from the Flint River. Although the change seemed economically prudent at the time, the contaminated Flint River supply exposed the residents to harmful contaminants, including various forms of lead. The effects of that exposure impacted residents of all ages; long-term effects continue to this day. By looking at scientific and journalistic research, we can see racial factors associated with the Flint water crisis, which most readers don’t see; this is important because acknowledging such factors eventually led the Flint municipal government and the Michigan state government to admit that they had committed wrongful acts that jeopardized the health of their citizens. With the national exposure of the Flint crisis, communities across the United States that are vulnerable to infrastructural violence also received attention.
1media/Flint infrastructural violence.png2024-08-14T12:21:32+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbInfrastructural and Slow Violence5image_header2024-08-16T04:40:51+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb
1media/Flint protest sign.png2024-08-14T12:43:46+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbSocial and Economic Effects6image_header2024-08-16T04:42:50+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb
1media/Flint water plant.jpg2024-08-15T04:23:53+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbConclusion3Concluding remarks on the Flint water crisisimage_header2024-08-15T04:27:59+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb
1media/WaterIsLifePPC_Pete_Railand_detail-768x1152 2.jpg2024-03-01T19:15:10+00:00Janna Avon5d94e00c8993d41ee364f6ed09a26f3847cf35b3Critical Disaster Studies and the Coloniality of DisasterMonica Salas Landa6Theme Descriptionplain2024-04-17T14:02:22+00:00Monica Salas Landab473bf122b09c89a8d54b612923cdfcccaba3f1f
1media/Flint protest sign.png2024-08-14T12:43:46+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbSocial and Economic EffectsAlex Gerstein6image_header2024-08-16T04:42:50+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb
1media/Flint infrastructural violence.png2024-08-14T12:21:32+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbInfrastructural and Slow ViolenceAlex Gerstein5image_header2024-08-16T04:40:51+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb
1media/Flint water plant.jpg2024-08-15T04:23:53+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbbConclusionAlex Gerstein3Concluding remarks on the Flint water crisisimage_header2024-08-15T04:27:59+00:00Alex Gersteindca8a38c163946f48a1e3d530153a830a050dfbb