Abolition as method | Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The event "Abolition as method" is funded by the European Research Council Inhabiting Radical Housing project and supported by Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST of Politecnico di Torino, DINAMIA’CET-ISCTE of Lisbon University Institute, the ICS of University of Lisbon and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Abstract
To find our way through the densities of the surrounds, where do we begin? Anywhere. Where might we go? That would depend on our guide to action. In this lecture I will develop some thinking shaped by Lenin, Cabral, and social reproduction theorists such as Battacharya to propose how methodological approaches might tend toward emancipatory place-making across many sites and scales of social reality's “surrounds.”

Speaker: Ruth Wilson Gilmore (New York Graduate Center)

Biography
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press). She and Paul Gilroy edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference(Duke University Press). Change Everything is forthcoming from Haymarket. The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist work. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Honors include the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (with Mike Davis and Angela Y. Davis), and the 2022 Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.

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