Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Abolition Geography – Essays Towards Liberation

Book launch with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.

‘Abolition is figuring out how to work with people to make something rather than figuring out how to erase something. Abolition is a theory of change, it’s a theory of social life.’
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organiser, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.

Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an ‘anti-state state’ that answers crises with the organised abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirements. Her approach escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organising and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches on the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon. She is author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007) and Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket, 2021).

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event.

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05.07.2022 | by Alícia Gaspar | abolition geography, Alberto Toscano, book launch, Brenna Bhandar, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

05.07 | 19h00   Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Duke University Press, 2018). Lançamento de livro e conversa com Brenna Bhandar e Rafeef Ziadah

No seu recente livro, “Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership” (Duke University Press, 2018), Brenna Bhandar traça ligações entre a ocupação colonial de terras, a racialização das populações indígenas e as hierarquias coloniais, aquilo que ela define como “regimes raciais de propriedade”. Criadas durante o período colonial, as ligações insidiosas entre propriedade, posse, cidadania e raça estendem-se pelas antigas e atuais colónias, bem como pelas suas metrópoles. Ao traçar as leis contemporâneas de propriedade até às suas origens coloniais, Bhandar defende a sua centralidade nas atuais lutas antirracistas e descolonizadoras a nível internacional. A autora examina as “lógicas partilhadas de subjetividade racial e direitos de propriedade privada, que têm sido centrais para o desenvolvimento do capitalismo racial” em estudos que abrangem países como a Palestina, a Austrália, o Canadá e a África do Sul.

 

 

Brenna Bhandar é Professora Associada de Direito na SOAS, University of London. É coeditora de “Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou” (Duke University Press, 2015, com Jon Goldberg-Hiller) e de “Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms” (Darkmatter Journal, 2016, com Davina Bhandar).

Rafeef Ziadah é Professora Auxiliar de Políticas Comparatistas do Médio Oriente na SOAS, University of London. Anterior- mente, foi bolseira do Programa de Pós-Doutoramento no Departamento de Políticas e Estudos Internacionais na SOAS com o projeto “Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East”. Os seus interesses de investigação incluem: economia política, política contenciosa, movimentos trabalhistas e políticas de humanitarismo, especialmente focadas no Médio Oriente.

Para mais informações, por favor contactar:

Carlos Alberto Carrilho | Tel + 351 21 352 11 55 | carlos.carrilho@maumaus.org | www.maumaus.org

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20.06.2018 | by martalanca | Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property