Ruth Wilson Gilmore - ABOLITION AS METHOD

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ABOLITION AS METHOD

To find our way through the densities of the surrounds, where do we begin? Anywhere. Where might we go? That would depend on our guide to action. In this lecture I will develop some thinking shaped by Lenin, Cabral, and social reproduction theorists such as Battacharya to propose how methodological approaches might tend toward emancipatory place-making across many sites and scales of social reality's “surrounds.”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press). She and Paul Gilroy edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference(Duke University Press). Change Everything is forthcoming from Haymarket. The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist work. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Honors include the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (with Mike Davis and Angela Y. Davis), and the 2022 Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.

Image credit: © Shellyne Rodriguez 2022 On the Subject of Defiant Mobility (color pencil on paper; detail).

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The event is funded by the European Research Council Inhabiting Radical Housing project (n. 851940, PI: Lancione).

It is also supported by DIST (Polytechnic and University of Turin), DINAMIA’CET-ISCTE (Lisbon University Institute), the ICS (University of Lisbon) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Castello del Valentino, 39 Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli, Torino, Italy