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Capital and Abolition
Saturday August 31, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB
In this session, authors Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs will draw on their work on California, Louisiana, and beyond to tease out the interrelationship of racial capitalist crisis and the expansion of carceral geographies as well as how a historical materialist approach to abolition can fortify and advance our struggles for new worlds.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical... Read More →
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research and teaching is focused on the carceral state, racial capitalism, feminist and queer politics, grassroots social movements, abolition geographies... Read More →
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Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa is associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and editor of the Abolitionist Papers book series at Haymarket Books. She is a member of the Tempest Collective.
Saturday August 31, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB
  Abolition
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