Unlimited

Authorized users

Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Alterity and the Flint water crisis : phenomenological insights into social invisibility / Mitchell Atkinson III.

9783031407765 (electronic bk.)
3031407768 (electronic bk.)
9783031407758
303140775X

Cham : Springer, 2023.

English

1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-031-40776-5 doi

BD460.O74

142/.7

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 20, 2023).

Contributions to phenomenology ; v. 127. 2215-1915

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources