Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

75 (1950-04-02)
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Ruth Wilson Gilmore 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 City University of New York.

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Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore 2020

Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses racial capitalism, and her activism outside Lisbon, Portugal.
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life 2011

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a critical analysis of the disfunctionality and violence of the prison system.