Do do you see a connection between the declining legitimacy of the global economic order and the liberal, internationalist world order that we've seen in recent years? On the one hand, and this increasingly intense debate over the present industrial complex in immigration. For such a long ti, mass incarceration and immigration control, alongside neo liberal globilization,. were really taken to be almost natural norms. Is there a relation between some sort of legitimacy crisis for all three of these things?
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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