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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Born April 2, 1950 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA (age 76)

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.

Known For

Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson GilmoreGeographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore · 2020
Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
2020
MovieDocumentary
Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses racial capitalism, and her activism outside Lisbon, Portugal.
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of LifeVisions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life · 2011
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
MovieDocumentary
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.

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