Ruth E beakand's new book, The Prison Industrial Complex is published by Simon & Schuster. In it she explores the role of prisons in a broader political economy. Brenta says her work offers an alternative way to think about global capitalism. She also points out how dialectics can help us understand and map something that seems so totalizing.
What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar, who edited the new collection Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation.
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