9781839761706-1839761709-Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

ISBN-13: 9781839761706
ISBN-10: 1839761709
Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alberto Toscano, Brenna Bhandar
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Verso
Format: Hardcover 512 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781839761706
ISBN-10: 1839761709
Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alberto Toscano, Brenna Bhandar
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Verso
Format: Hardcover 512 pages

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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (ISBN-13: 9781839761706 and ISBN-10: 1839761709), written by authors Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alberto Toscano, Brenna Bhandar, was published by Verso in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Human Geography (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Human Geography books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.32.

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The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration
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.
Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.

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