Guest Post by Felix Lucero. If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us. "Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Summary: Included some interesting info, but it was dense and didn’t answer the main question it addressed.

Learn how your comment data is processed. It is certainly possible this is a case where it’s not the book, it’s me! Blogs > Cliopatria > Tony Platt: Review of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press). Assemblyman Ammiano Arrives in Pelican Bay, Book Review: Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, U.S. Bureau of Prisons to Review Solitary Confinement. Volker Janssen. I could tell this book was intended for an academic audience. This book is really critical for understanding the 'why' of the prison-industrial complex, and not just the 'how' - which I tend to think we know more about. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion. The author also noted that it didn’t have to work out this way, but fails to explain why prisons, as opposed to some other development project, ended up being the recipient of this investment of surplus resources.

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Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for It’s been on my list for ages, as I’ve really loved Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s writing in various articles and chapters for edited collections. © 2000–2020 San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. Nayan Shah, author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown This is a book review by Sara Olson of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's book - Golden Gulag; Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In some ways, the contents are old news, but alas not old enough to have become mere bad memories or the stuff of history to learn from. The chapter I already mentioned, on Mothers ROC, was a particular favorite of mine.

I’ve been working through an online class to learn about the prison abolition movement and it includes several interviews with author Ruth Wilson Gilmore. (pp.

Opinions are those of the contributors and are not However, I think I followed along sufficiently to grasp the author’s main argument. I could tell this book was intended for an academic audience. Its state flower is the orange golden poppy. It was an interesting, if extremely academic, look at a lot of the economic and political history of California. With the exception of this single chapter though, I didn’t enjoy reading this very much. ★★. Book review: Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California, Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Powered by, CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title. A book review by Sara Olson California embraces the nickname, the Golden State. Book Review: Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore So many great books have come out in the 21st century examining the genesis of mass incarceration; we've discussed many of them here. That’s what led me to this academic nonfiction work of hers, which purports to explain the origins of the extensive California prison system. I would highly recommend reading the section on the valuable work of Mothers ROC, but I’m not sure the rest was worth the effort. It was more readable and more tangible than the earlier chapters, which focused more on theory. I didn’t learn what I hoped to from it and by the end, I was relieved to be finished. 412 pp.

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