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Carceral Geographies: Mapping the escape routes from mass incarceration

By Jonathan Simor

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Today and tomorrow (September 8-19) at UC Berkeley we will be launching a new undergraduate ?course thread? titled ?Carceral Geographies?. Our launch will begin with a keynote address by the great Ruth ?Ruthie?Wilson Gimore, scholar/activist extraordinaire who has given us the definitive study of California?s descent into mass incarceration, Golden Gulags: Prisons,Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press 2007). Gilmore?s address, (which I?ll be tweeting) titled ?The Present and Future of California Prisons? will take place today, September 18th, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, Dwinelle Hall, Room 370, on the UC Berkeley campus (all are welcome).Course threads are intended to encourage Berkeley students to integrate their knowledge of particularly important contemporary themes across the disciplines they study...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on September 18, 2014 (boomark / email).