GGRB05H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Escherichia Coli, Carcinogen, Finance Capitalism
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Flint disaster is the result of the local state acting within the context of neoliberalism. Central cause of this disaster was an austerity measure imposed by the municipal. Emergency fiscal manager (efm) efm (cid:449)as i(cid:373)posed (cid:271)(cid:455) mi(cid:272)higa(cid:374)"s go(cid:448)er(cid:374)or i(cid:374) respo(cid:374)se to fli(cid:374)t"s fi(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ial (cid:272)risis. This problem is the rare instance where people can see the structural nature of env. People of flint are devalued b/c their blackness a(cid:374)d their (cid:862)surplus status(cid:863) two are connected. Devaluation of black/poc has been a central feature of capitalism for centuries. Racial capitalism shows that existing capitalism exploits culturally and socially diff. such as race, gender, region, and nationality, unevenly. Flint was abandoned by capital (loss of gm) as it became increasingly black and poor, it was abandoned by its state. The black flint residents constitute 3 forms of surplus: outcast, underground, and threat. Their (cid:449)ater suppl(cid:455) (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:373)i(cid:374)ated(cid:863) it was poisoned a deliberate and evil act.
