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Title:
Abolition geography : essays towards liberation
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

©2022
Physical Description:
vi, 506 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781839761706
Abstract:
"The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part I: What is to be done? -- What is to be done? -- Decorative beasts: Dogging the academy in the late 20th century -- Public enemies and private intellectuals: Apartheid USA -- Scholar-activists in the mix -- Part II: Race and space -- Race and globalization -- Fatal couplings of power and difference: Notes on racism and geography -- Terror austerity race gender excess theater -- Race, prisons, and war: Scenes from the history of US violence -- Part III: Prisons, militarism, and the anti-state state -- Globalization and US prison growth: From military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism -- In the shadow of the shadow state -- The other California (w/ Craig Gilmore) -- Restating the obvious (w/ Craig Gilmore) -- Beyond Bratton (w/ Craig Gilmore) -- From military-industrial complex to prison-industrial complex: An interview with Trevor Paglen -- Prisons and class warfare: An interview with Clement Petitjean/Période -- Part IV: Organizing for abolition -- You have dislodged a boulder: Mothers and prisoners in the post-Keynesian California landscape -- Forgotten places and the seeds of grassroots planning -- The worrying state of the anti-prison movement -- Race, capitalist crisis, and abolitionist organizing: an interview with Jenna Loyd -- Abolition geography and the problem of innocence.
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Language:
English
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