Listen to
Ruth Wilson Gilmore a geographer and
the most interesting speaker I’ve heard in years
who created the discipline of carceral geography
transforming how we think about criminal justice.
Carceral or punitive geography
connects geography and the state,
highlighting spaces of incarceration
for geographers to explore.
Her grandfather and father both
New Haven union activists.
Her father, a machinist
and president of his union, head of the
local NAACP, later worked at the Yale
Medical School and helped bring
black students there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
(Her new book Abolition Geography
out in May.)