[Bookstoprisoners] Ruth Wilson Gilmore lecture

[Brian Dolinar]

I'd second the recommendation to catch Ruthie Gilmore on Thurs.
She is one of the prison scholar/activists on the West Coast
and she is applying for job in GWS.

BD

On Dec 4, 2007 12:15 PM, sara ross <saralross at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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