Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Recorded September 22, 2022
In conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is largely credited with creating carceral geography, the study of how the interplay between space, institutions, and political economies shape modern incarceration. The author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and several often-anthologized essays, she is the co-founder of several social justice organizations, including the California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance. She is a professor of earth and environmental sciences and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. Gilmore’s many honors include the Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship from the American Studies Association and the Association of American Geographers' Harold Rose Award for Anti-Racist Research. A collection of Gilmore’s work from the last three decades, Abolition Geography offers scholars, activists, and all interested people a new way of reacting to the incarceration crisis.
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[@lmagee1417]

The main issue is father absence and break down of the black family and lack of black unity . Asthma? Asthma is the reason for imprisonment? What a bunch of crock, no wonder this post has no comments after 5 months, this is nonsense. I'm always amazed as to how liberals can communicate nonsense and make it sound so eloquent.

[@jargalo0098]

hows the boot taste big boy

[@haydenmuller-powers7975]

where are the absent fathers? Whats breaking families down? 1 in 10 black men are locked up RIGHT NOW and 1 in 3 will serve a sentence of some kind at some point in there life, police and prisons are sucking these men out of their communities.