Abolition geography : essays towards liberation

Type
Book
ISBN 10
1839761709 
ISBN 13
9781839761706 
Category
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Publication Year
2022 
Publisher
Verso 
Pages
506 
Description
"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.

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