ABSTRACT The severe water emergency in Flint, Michigan between 2014 and 2016 was inarguably caused by systemic organizational dysfunction. The Michigan Governor Snyders’ Flint Water Advisory Task Force, in their analysis of the severe water emergency in Flint, Michigan, emphasized the degree of systemic organizational dysfunction, providing evidence that the agencies involved demonstrated a disregard for the poor and black citizens of Flint and participated in environmental injustice. The author traces, through journalists’ reports, e-mails between and among officials, first-hand testimony and the timeline provided by the Task Force, that the performance of the involved agencies (the state Department of Environmental Quality and the Michigan Department of Health Services) was tainted by systemic racism, Othering and by the dehumanization of Flint citizens the majority of whom were African American, and poor. The scandal was finally made public when a pediatrician showed unequivocal data on the alarmingly high lead levels in children who ingested the water. An organizational analysis based on psychoanalytic principles (Freud, Bion, Hopper) further supplements her observations that systemic racism aided and abetted severe systemic dysfunction.

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政府机构内的系统性种族主义和其他行为：密歇根州弗林特水危机中环境不公正的精神分析解释

摘要 2014 年至 2016 年密歇根州弗林特市发生的严重水资源紧急情况无疑是由系统性组织功能障碍引起的。密歇根州州长斯奈德斯的弗林特水资源咨询工作组在分析密歇根州弗林特的严重水资源紧急情况时强调了系统性组织功能障碍的程度，提供了证据表明相关机构表现出对弗林特的穷人和黑人公民的漠视和参与了环境不公。作者通过记者的报道、官员之间的电子邮件、第一手证词和工作组提供的时间表，追溯了相关机构（州环境质量部和密歇根州卫生部）的表现服务）受到系统性种族主义的污染，其他以及弗林特公民的非人性化，其中大多数是非裔美国人和穷人。丑闻最终被公之于众，当时一名儿科医生给出了明确的数据，表明摄入水的儿童体内的铅含量高得惊人。基于精神分析原则（弗洛伊德、比昂、霍珀）的组织分析进一步补充了她的观察，即系统性种族主义助长和教唆严重的系统性功能障碍。