A powerful telling of a remarkable journey as the people of Flint rose up to fight for their health, their water, and their democratic rights. Flint Fights Back is a story of tragedy and betrayal, but as well, one of hope and the human heart.
Maude Barlow, author, activist, founder of the Blue Planet Project, and Chair of the Board of Food and Water Watch
Flint Fights Back is a breathtaking book. Never before has Flint's movement for water and democracy been chronicled in such exciting, intimate detail. Transcending the usual narrative traps, Pauli has given us a brilliant account of political agency and possibility that does justice to the movement's complexities, conflicts, and power.
Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
What a wonderful book! Flint Fights Back is unlike any other coverage of Flint's water crisis. Ben Pauli is a scholar-activist and Flint resident. His ethnographic analysis reveals the role of anti-democratic decision-making in creating Flint's water crisis—with valuable insights for anyone interested in understanding or fighting environmental injustices.
Dr. Amber Wutich, President's Professor and Director, Center for Global Health, Arizona State University
Flint Fights Back is an indispensable account of what happened, and how ordinary people fought back. Pauli's first-hand experiences, analysis drawn from political theory, and attention to science, social movements, and policies is utterly unique. This book allows us to better understand justice and democracy in our current moment and beyond.
Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis
Flint Fights Back is part sober analysis of the water crisis, part dispatch from the frontlines of the environmental justice movement, and a moving testament to a city's fighting spirit.
American Scholar
A sadly necessary book putting the activism that emerged during the Flint water crisis into the context of the broader struggle to maintain and protect democracy. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.
EcoWatch
[the book provides] a deeper analysis of the activists' movement than has been offered anywhere else.
East Village Magazine
The book is a recommended read for environmental movement and policy scholars, comparative politics scholars looking for North American case studies, as well as Americanists looking for an accessible connection to environmental justice scholarship.
Electronic Green Journal
