The chapter I already mentioned, on Mothers ROC, was a particular favorite of mine. Powered by, CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title. With the exception of one chapter, on the Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (ROC) movement, it was dense and difficult to follow. I could tell this book was intended for an academic audience. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for 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. It included a lot of theory, history, and some economic/business info that I struggled with. Tweak Me theme by Nose Graze. Blogs > Cliopatria > Tony Platt: Review of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press). With the exception of one chapter, on the Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (ROC) movement, it was dense and difficult to follow. Summary: Included some interesting info, but it was dense and didn’t answer the main question it addressed. I would summarize it as: the California prison system is essentially an outlet for surplus capital that is available for investment; surplus land that owners want to sell for a profit; and surplus labor, both in the form of the urban poor who primarily populate the prisons and the rural populations who mistakenly believe that prisons will enrich their community with jobs. Volker Janssen. That’s what led me to this academic nonfiction work of hers, which purports to explain the origins of the extensive California prison system. 2 Unfortunately, while this book included some fascinating information, I think it failed in that primary goal. Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay. We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts! (pp. non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and Golden Gulag is a late first book—late in my life, late to the press, and so late in the twentieth century that it appears well into the twenty-first. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Oh, no, I am so sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy this! ISBN 978—0—520—24201—2 Show all authors. She does identify some of the ways that prisons enforce existing race and class hierarchies, but if she posits this as an explanatory factor, I didn’t catch that. 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. It is certainly possible this is a case where it’s not the book, it’s me! necessarily endorsed by the SF Bay Area IMC. Book review: Golden gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California, Ruth Wilson Gilmore. (including bibliography and index). Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Its state flower is the orange golden poppy. I could tell this book was intended for an academic audience. It is the home of much natural beauty within bent rectangular borders; northern rugged to southern smooth seashores, magnificent mountains to sere stretches of greedily overdeveloped desert lands. With the exception of this single chapter though, I didn’t enjoy reading this very much. While many of these books look at trends nationwide, or even in the industrialized West, it is no coincidence that they tend to focus on California. 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. This is a book review by Sara Olson of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's book - Golden Gulag; Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California. The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity: Execut... CCC Conference 2013: Realignment and Reform, Get Tough or Get Smart? $ 132.00 donatedin the past month. August 17, 2020 DoingDewey Uncategorized Opinions are those of the contributors and are not Finished this book a few weeks ago but didn't have chance to post review. Copyright © 2020 Doing Dewey. 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. Thoughts and News on Criminal Justice and Correctional Policy in California, I specialize in criminal justice and civil rights and teach at, bear logo (c) Chad Goerzen.. Watermark theme. 412 pp. 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. Volker Janssen. 5-29) This book is about the phenomenal growth of California’s state prison system since 1982 and grassroots opposition to the expanding use of prisons as catchall solutions to social problems. $50 (hbk). It was an interesting, if extremely academic, look at a lot of the economic and political history of California. Design by New Chapter Designs, #KirkusPrize Shortlist Review: A Furious Sky, #FuturisticFriday: Find Your New Reads {Oct-Dec 2020 Edition}. © 2000–2020 San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. Book Review: Prison Profiteers, Edited by Tara Her... What's Cheaper: Litigating or Realigning? If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us. 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. ISBN 978—0—520—22256—4; $19.95 (pbk).
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