Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis : Phenomenological Insights into Social Invisibility / / by Mitchell Atkinson III

• Autore: Atkinson III Mitchell
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2023.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.310977437
• Soggetto topico: Phenomenology; Social sciences - Philosophy; Race; Social Philosophy; Race and Ethnicity Studies
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Prolegomena on Theory: Rector, Actor, Other -- 3. We Got Flint Babies through the Grueling 80s: A Moment of Autoethnography -- 4. Intentionality -- 5. Intuition -- 6. The Phenomenological Method -- 7. Genesis, Habituality, Type -- 8. Quintipartite Method and World-Disclosure -- 9. Historical Determinants for Environmental Disaster -- 10. Ethnography, Interviews and Analysis -- 11. Discussion, Implication, Synthesis.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis
• ISBN: 3-031-40776-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746096303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, . 2215-1915 ; ; 127