Land Use & Land Control
People struggle for land locally, regionally, and globally. As homelessness increases exponentially, communities the world over seek solutions. Scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, drawing on her rich experience and interactions with grassroots organizations in South Africa, Brazil and Jamaica, offers a multiplicity of perspectives addressing land issues. Everywhere there is a consensus that housing is too expensive. Everywhere that is, except the property-owning ruling class. The rich and powerful continuously look to expand their control over land to build more apartments, condos, houses, and malls while ordinary people struggle to pay rent and can’t afford starter homes. Affordability is a key rallying point. Activists and NGOs the world over are organizing and resisting.
Speaker
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She is the recipient of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. She is the author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
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