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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Gilmore in 2012
Born (1950-04-02) April 2, 1950 (age 74)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)scholar, professor
Academic background
EducationRutgers University, New Brunswick (PhD)
ThesisFrom Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism: Finance Capital, Land, Labor, and Opposition in the Rising California Prison State[1] (1998)
Doctoral advisorNeil Smith[2][1]
Academic work
DisciplineGeographer
InstitutionsCUNY Graduate Center, University of Southern California
Main interestsPrison-industrial complex, Race

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar.[3] She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[4] She has been credited with "more or less single-handedly" inventing carceral geography,[5] the "study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration".[6] She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.[7]

  1. ^ a b Gilmore, Ruth Wilson (1998). From military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism: Finance capital, land, labor, and opposition in the rising California prison state (Ph.D.). Rutgers University. OCLC 48273060. ProQuest 304451485.
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  3. ^ Kelly, Kim (26 December 2019). "What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  4. ^ "CUNY Graduate Center". Retrieved 2014-11-05.
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  6. ^ "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  7. ^ American Association of Geographers (2019-12-02). "AAG is Proud to Announce the 2020 AAG Honors". AAG Newsletter. Retrieved 2020-06-13.

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