[Bookstoprisoners] Ruth Wilson Gilmore lecture

[sara ross]

Hello, 
I'm forwarding this to you all because this speaker is just amazing. She has recently published an excellent book called "The Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California" that takes a close look at the production of prisons and interrogates much of the discussion around prisons creating work for towns, privatizations, etc. 
best, sarah ross

 Ruth Wilson Gilmore
 Chair, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC 
 Associate Professor, ASE and Geography, USC
 
 
 Big Things: Development, Abandonment, and the Infrastructure of Feeling
 
 Thursday, December 6
 4 pm
 192  Lincoln Hall
 Reception following at GWS House
 
 Description: In the long twentieth century, every type of political economic formation - capitalist, socialist, communist, oligarchic, dictator- embraced modernization as a principal goal. Modernization would be accelerated by the targeted expenditure of social income on big things. The period witnessed general agreement that public infrastructure was central to all development, which would enhance the future for a polity's residents. If infrastructure underlies productivity, how was the infrastructural imperative produced, and what came of it? Can certain underlying inclinations, or what I like to call "infrastructures of feeling," be systematically identified as central to how material reconfigurations of landscapes and life-chances inherent in infrastructural improvements happen? Can we learn more about the production of difference (for example, between citizen and noncitizen) and in particular the gendered production of race, by studying infrastructure at the margins?
 
 
-- 
Jacque Kahn, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Gender& Women's Studies Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
911 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL  61820

217-333-2990
http://www.gws.uiuc.edu 
 
       
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