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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2 de abril de 1950) es una investigadora y abolicionista de las prisiones. [1] Es directora del Centro para el Lugar, la Cultura y la Política y profesora de geografía en Ciencias Ambientales y de la Tierra en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York.[[2]
4 de may. de 2021 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies, and the director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is a renowned scholar and activist on racial capitalism, prison abolition, and urban studies.
17 de abr. de 2019 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice. Ruth...
3 de abr. de 2023 · The prison abolitionist and scholar discusses community policing, the failure of Anglo-American geography, and the notion of freedom as a place. “Where life is precious, life is precious,” says Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the 72-year-old prison abolitionist who has become one of the movement’s most important thinkers and organizers.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of geography and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She writes about racial capitalism, abolition, and social movements, and has co-edited a volume on Stuart Hall.
Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and practice of abolition have repeatedly turned to the geographer and organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In her scholarship, Gilmore has rigorously exposed the political and economic forces that have led to the incarceration of over 2 million people in the United States.
