i think we need to when we think of politics vis a v economics, it shouldnt i mean, its thinking of political economy. I was just thinking to follow up on on what alberto was just saying, and the terrific question that brenna had put to me,. That i'd been thinking about more than i realized. But whence? Whence you put it to mes? Oh, i have been thinking about t and that is to think about territories, and thinking territory as the fundamental condition of what we understand to be states.
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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