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Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

The Dig

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The Immobility of Capitalism in North America

Mass incarceration is key to understanding the forms of capitalism that we've seen ascendent since the 19 seventies or so. Canada and mexico have been in part ay to a make it possible for capitalist firms that pass their goods through these three countries to maximize what they can extract from workers. A dominican republic has diminished the citizenship status of people who are the descendants of hatians. The u.K. Has been deporting people many places, but particularly to jamaica,. as well as elsewhere in their, you know, constant purges.

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