"Abolition Geography" Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore

365 5th Avenue,New York NY 10016

09 May, 2022

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Join Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore to celebrate her new book Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. We will gather IN PERSON in the James Gallery. To attend it is necessary to: 1) Register here by May 2nd, 2022 2) To obtain a CUNY Access Pass, you will need to register with Cleared4. To register, click on this link and submit proof of your COVID-19 vaccination. Please read the CUNY Graduate Center's building entry policy below. Join Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore to celebrate her new book Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Gathering together Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an “anti-state state” that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place. Organized by the James Gallery, Verso Books, and Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. To protect the health and safety of our CUNY communities of students, faculty and staff, CUNY’s visitor policy now requires all visitors to provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to visiting a CUNY college location, building or office. CUNY is using the Cleared4 system to provide a secure way to submit this information in advance of a scheduled campus visit and to issue a CUNY Access Pass for entry. USER GUIDE: COVID-19 Registration and Upload Guide for Visitors, Contractors and Vendors BUILDING ACCESS ON THE DAY OF SCHEDULED VISIT: Access to the Graduate Center will be granted upon presentation of your approved CUNY Access Pass and a picture identification. You can either print out a copy of your CUNY Access Pass, or display it on your phone to verify that you have a valid CUNY Access Pass. PLEASE NOTE: • Do not travel to the Graduate Center until you receive your approved CUNY Access Pass notification. You will not be permitted to access the Graduate Center, or a CUNY location, if your COVID-19 vaccination has not been approved. • CUNY expects all students, faculty, staff and visitors to follow the New York City Board of Health guidelines on COVID-19.