Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

"Most people I know would argue that an essay collection from one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the past three decades, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, is an important read. But most may also find the prospect academic and daunting – like a homework assignment. Let me dispel you of that fear. Gilmore is clear as a bell: potent and factual on injustice, filled with sharp intelligence and even wit, but also somehow continuously surprising and emotional. With every page, Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways."