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Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis

Phenomenological Insights into Social Invisibility

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Authors:
  1. Mitchell Atkinson III

    1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute for Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, Poland

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  • Addresses the Flint water crisis as a philosophical problem
  • Provides a novel phenomenological-sociological methodology that researchers can further utilize
  • Incorporates Isaac Ariail Reed’s theory of power and give it phenomenological support

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 127)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 1-11

  3. Prolegomena on Theory: Rector, Actor, Other

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 13-44

  4. We Got Flint Babies Through the Grueling 80s: A Moment of Autoethnography

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 45-63

  5. Intentionality

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 65-83

  6. Intuition

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 85-107

  7. The Phenomenological Method

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 109-141

  8. Genesis, Habituality, Type

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 143-160

  9. Quintipartite Method and World-Disclosure

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 161-179

  10. Historical Determinants for Environmental Disaster

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 181-199

  11. Ethnography, Interviews and Analysis

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 201-241

  12. Discussion, Implication, Synthesis

    • Mitchell Atkinson III
    Pages 243-255

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

This text develops a novel methodology for social investigation into the Flint (Michigan, USA) water crisis by using classical Husserlian phenomenology as its point of departure. To develop a proper method in a case like this, the author uses as primary data the experiences of the affected community. The text investigates philosophically how a water crisis happens as well as the structures of power responsible. This book grounds contemporary theories of power in a phenomenology of social experience. Key to that grounding is the careful elaboration of subject positions in power structures as partially constitutive of lifeworlds (lebensumwelten) for consciousness. The applied phenomenological tools unravel the central enigma of how a community’s concerns and the dictates of power can become so disastrously estranged. This text appeals to researchers and students working not just in phenomenology and philosophy but also to those working in the field of environmental humanities and on social justice issues.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute for Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, Poland

    Mitchell Atkinson III

About the author

Dr. Mitchell Atkinson III was born in Flint, MI, USA. He holds degrees in philosophy and sociology, including a doctorate awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences. He teaches philosophy and philosophical writing. He has published work on ontology, musical experience, transhumanism, empathy, Husserl, and other topics. His research interests include prediction and voting behavior, media and social influence, power, dominance, social-theoretic applications of classical phenomenology, expectation, resilience, race, and others. His home is in Warsaw, Poland, with his wife.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis

  • Book Subtitle: Phenomenological Insights into Social Invisibility

  • Authors: Mitchell Atkinson III

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40776-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40775-8Published: 14 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40778-9Due: 03 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40776-5Published: 13 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime

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