Abolition geography : essays towards liberation / Ruth Wilson Gilmore ; edited by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Bhandar, Brenna, 1973- editor.

Toscano, Alberto, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison abolition movements.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Racism--Political aspects.

Racism.

Crime and race.

Human geography.

Antislavery movements.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vi, 506 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, 2022.

Summary:

"The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration."-- Provided by publisher.

"Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an 'anti-state state' that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place."--Verso Books product page.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I What Is to Be Done?

1. What Is to Be Done?

2. Decorative Beasts: Dogging the Academy in the Late 20th Century

3. Public Enemies and Private Intellectuals: Apartheid USA

4. Scholar-Activists in the Mix

pt. II Race and Space

5. Race and Globalization

6. Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference: Notes on Racism and Geography

7. Terror Austerity Race Gender Excess Theater

8. Race, Prisons, and War: Scenes from the History of US Violence

pt. III Prisons, Militarism, and the Anti-State State

9. Globalization and US Prison Growth: From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism

10. In the Shadow of the Shadow State

11. The Other California (w/Craig Gilmore)

12. Restating the Obvious (w/Craig Gilmore)

13. Beyond Bratton (w/Craig Gilmore)

14. From Military-Industrial Complex to Prison-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Trevor Paglen

15. Prisons and Class Warfare: An Interview with Clement Petitjean/Periode

pt. IV Organizing for Abolition

16. You Have Dislodged a Boulder: Mothers and Prisoners in the Post-Keynesian California Landscape

17. Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning

18. The Worrying State of the Anti-Prison Movement

19. Race, Capitalist Crisis, and Abolitionist Organizing: An Interview with Jenna Loyd

20. Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781839761706

1839761709

OCLC:

1308480442

Publisher Number:

99991057160