Abolition Geography
Book • 2021
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Abolition Geography collects decades of her scholarship and organizing reflections, centering the geographies of incarceration, racial capitalism, and state capacity.
The book develops key concepts—such as organized abandonment, surplus populations, and the anti-state state—to explain how governance produces group-differentiated vulnerability.
Through case studies, historical analysis, and theoretical interventions, Gilmore shows how carceral expansion is tied to broader shifts in public provisioning and fiscal politics.
The essays offer both diagnostic clarity and strategic orientation for abolitionist practice grounded in place-sensitive organizing.
Abolition Geography has become an influential text for scholars and organizers working on abolition, environmental justice, and critical geography.
The book develops key concepts—such as organized abandonment, surplus populations, and the anti-state state—to explain how governance produces group-differentiated vulnerability.
Through case studies, historical analysis, and theoretical interventions, Gilmore shows how carceral expansion is tied to broader shifts in public provisioning and fiscal politics.
The essays offer both diagnostic clarity and strategic orientation for abolitionist practice grounded in place-sensitive organizing.
Abolition Geography has become an influential text for scholars and organizers working on abolition, environmental justice, and critical geography.
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