RITM Distinguished Lecture | Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Meanwhile (Parts 1 & 2)

These lectures explore how a small group of organizers combined experience with theoretical insights to create an abolition geography that weakened California’s long-thickening carceral geography. What are some tasks organizers set for themselves? What kinds of social and spatial challenges arose? How did engagement with problems – including organizers’ political and rhetorical failures – encourage consciously renovated participation in rural and urban contexts? Focusing on questions of race, gender, labor, age, status, long-distance migration, and changing state forms, the California cases provide insights that articulate with work elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad on a strong tendency in contemporary racial capitalism.
Please note that this event consists of two lectures, which will take place on November 18th & 19th at 4:00pm in Loria 250.