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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) 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 Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Apr 17, 2019 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind. In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice. Ruth...
May 4, 2021 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies, and the director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is a renowned scholar and activist on racial capitalism, prison abolition, and urban studies.
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Mar 30, 2023 · Listen to a conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a geographer, activist, and author of Change Everything. She shares her vision of abolition, carceral geography, and human flourishing.
Feb 7, 2023 · For more than 30 years, Ruth Wilson Gilmore has created scholarship on an idea once considered radical: that society can and should abolish prisons and policing.
Jun 10, 2020 · Geographer and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses the history and politics of police and prisons in the U.S. with Chenjerai Kumanyika. She argues for prison abolition and defunding police forces in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Jun 19, 2019 · Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of geography and a co-founder of many social justice organizations. She and James Kilgore, a former prisoner and a media justice fellow, write about their philosophy and practice of abolition in The Marshall Project.
