[Peace] Apr. 28: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography; Challenges and Opportunities for the Popular Front Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

[Brian Dolinar]

There's a talk coming up by the anti-prison activist-scholar Ruth Wilson
Gilmore. Check it out. BD

Center for Advanced Study 2013-2014 Initiative
Cultures of Law in Global Contexts

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (CUNY) will give a presentation in the  CAS Initiative
on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts  entitled A*BOLITION GEOGRAPHY:
CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES for the POPULAR FRONT AGAINST the
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX*,  Monday, April 28, 4:00pm, Knight Auditorium,
Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana.

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 *Golden
Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing
California *(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.  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.

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.


        Complete abstract available at cas.Illinois.edu


 This presentation is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or
cas.illinois.edu

-- 
Liesel Wildhagen
Coordinator of Public Events
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois
912 W. Illinois Street (MC-064)
Urbana, IL 61801

phone (217) 333-6729www.cas.illinois.edu




-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
briandolinar.com
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