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.
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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