Abolition Geography Essays Towards Liberation

From the earliest text collected here, with its call for "resisting and denouncing the re-objectification of the subaltern subject" and working out "the semiotics and histrionics of critical performance," Gilmore's writing is deeply attuned to the vexed question of how to foster a political culture "on our enemies' land." Besieged as we are by representations of the intellectual that often serve to debilitate, distract, and disintegrate--rather than to orient or organize-- there is much to be gained by rethinking, along with Gilmore, what scholarship/activism as "organic praxis" might mean the present. This is a present that daily reminds us that only the most capacious and intransigent vision of liberation can stand a chance against the catastrophe in permanence organized under the aegis of the anti-state and exacerbated by its fascistic progeny. 

- Editor's Introduction

Other Category: Human Geography