In the sixth and final episode of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Often dismissed or set aside as a US-based movement, Gracie and Ruth sit down together to explore how we can think about the histories, legacies and politics of abolition in the British context and beyond. They map how local instances of political organising express themselves globally, as well as interrogating how past struggles express themselves in the present.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences and American Studies at the City University of New York. She is the co-founder of many grassroots organisations, including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She is also the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, and Abolition Geography.
About the Series:
Locating Legacies is a fortnightly podcast created by the Stuart Hall Foundation, co-produced by Pluto Press and funded by Arts Council England. The series is dedicated to tracing the reverberations of history to contextualise present-day politics, deepen our understanding of some of the crucial issues of our time, and to draw connections between past struggles and our daily lives.
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Family Abolition with M. E. O’Brien
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Locating Legacies: ’The Cold War’ with Vijay Prashad
Locating Legacies: ’Identity Politics’ with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Private Worlds: Growing up Gay in Post-War Britain
Locating Legacies: ’The Politics of Decolonisation’ with Françoise Vergès
Locating Legacies: ’On Stuart Hall’ with Kojo Koram
Announcing the ’Locating Legacies’ Podcast: In Partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation
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