The Forge | Organized Abandonment Talk by Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore @TheForgeJHB | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
On 8 December 2022 The forge hosted a public talk and panel discussion on Organized Abandonment.
Presenter: Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022); and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press 2007); and she has co-edited, with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke 2021).
Discussants/panellists:
Yvonne Phyllis is the Co-Director of Operations at The Forge.
Dr Vashna Jagarnath is a Director of both Pan Africa Today and Friends of the Workers.
Professor Kelly Gillespie, from the University of the Western Cape, is a political and legal anthropologist, with a research focus on abolition in South Africa.
Facilitator: Maneo Refiloe Mohale editor, feminist writer and poet.
On 8 December 2022 The forge hosted a public talk and panel discussion on Organized Abandonment.
Presenter: Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022); and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press 2007); and she has co-edited, with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke 2021).
Discussants/panellists:
Yvonne Phyllis is the Co-Director of Operations at The Forge.
Dr Vashna Jagarnath is a Director of both Pan Africa Today and Friends of the Workers.
Professor Kelly Gillespie, from the University of the Western Cape, is a political and legal anthropologist, with a research focus on abolition in South Africa.
Facilitator: Maneo Refiloe Mohale editor, feminist writer and poet.
