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<blockquote>Center for Advanced Study 2013-2014 Initiative<br>
Cultures of Law in Global Contexts <br>
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY) will give a presentation in the CAS
Initiative on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts entitled A<b>BOLITION
GEOGRAPHY: CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES for the POPULAR FRONT
AGAINST the PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX</b>, Monday, April 28,
4:00pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory,
Urbana.<br>
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography, Earth &
Environmental Sciences and American Studies, Graduate Center, City
University of New York where she is also Director, Center for
Place, Culture and Politics.
In <i>Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in
Globalizing California </i>(2007), she examined how political
and economic forces produced California’s prison boom. In the 2012
DVD “Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way
of Life,” Gilmore joins other scholars to examine the prison
system and the history of the prison abolition movement.<i> </i>In
2012, the American STudies Association honored Gilmore with its
Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship, an award that
recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for
the “public good.” Gilmore lectures widely and works regularly
with community groups and grassroots organizations and is known
for the broad accessibility of her research.<br>
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<blockquote>In 1998, the Critical Resistance conference
popularized the phrase “prison industrial complex and, in
conjunction with a broad range of groups throughout the USA and
abroad, helped bring renewed and expanded focus on the fact of
“mass incarceration.” Now more than 15 years later, it is wise
to refresh our thinking. What might be the most adequate
general term or terms that gather together for scrutiny and
action the disparate yet connected range of categories,
relationships, and processes as those concentrated by the
carceral? What’s at stake is how people pursue both political
strategies and alliances, how they organize, promote ideas, and
pursue to completion the unfinished work of freedom.<br>
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Complete abstract available at <a href="http://cas.Illinois.edu" target="_blank">cas.Illinois.edu</a><br>
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This presentation is free and open to the public. <br>
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For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at
333-6729 or <a href="http://cas.illinois.edu" target="_blank">cas.illinois.edu</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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