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This event will gather scholars and activists to share their knowledge and wisdom about the political economy of the carceral state and campaigns to redirect resources away from prisons and police and toward BIPOC communities. In response to the summer of unrest, a public conversation has been initiated that draws attention to local and federal funding imbalances that prioritize police, prisons, and security above education, housing, healthcare, climate justice, and welfare. What political tools are available to dismantle carceral capitalism? How can we move toward an economy that is abolitionist?
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This panel discussion will be joined by Heilbroner Faculty Fellow, Jacqueline Wang (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts), Anastasia Wilson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), and Alyxandra Goodwin and Jasson Perez (Action Center on Race and the Economy).
Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link via email. For questions please email capitalismstudies[at]newschool[dot]edu.Â
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Presented by Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research and the the Lang Prison Initiative’s Case for Radical Change Series.
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Jackie Wang is a Heilbroner Faculty Fellow 2020-2021. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state. Her forthcoming book manuscript, tentatively titled Vectors of Control, examines how, during the postwar period, calls to reform the U.S. criminal legal system catalyzed experimentation in the realm of criminal procedure and led to the development of new techniques of control. Rather than focusing exclusively on the role of the state in pursuing the policy path now known as ‘mass incarceration,’ her recent research looks at the role of reformers, nonprofits, the Cold War university, and financiers in shaping the development of the carceral state.Â
Anastasia Wilson teaches courses in political economy, principles of economics, and economics and gender. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying political economy, economic history, and heterodox economics. She is also involved with the Center for Popular Economics. Wilson's research interests are Political Economy, Carceral Systems and Capitalism, Political Economy of Schooling.
Alyx is currently a senior organizer at Action Center on Race and the Economy, organizing with BYP100 Chicago, and a co-founder and writer with LEFT OUT Magazine. Her writing and activism are centered around the momentum and challenges of building Black power and self-determination. Her work at ACRE currently focuses on the relationship between the finance industry and policing, racialized capitalism, and how these things exacerbate oppressions.
Jasson Perez is a writer, organizer and researcher who studies the connections between leftist organizing approaches, political movement formation, policing, incarceration, and economics. He works to create political projects that connect organizing fights for economic, climate and social justice to the politics of abolition, decolonization and socialism. You can find Jasson’s writing and research at Dissent, Spectre, Jacobin, Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and the Cook Center on Social Equity. Before becoming a researcher and writer Jasson was a lead organizer for SEIU Local 73 and BYP100. When Jasson isn’t selling his labor for sustenance, you can find him subpar rapping with the rap group BBU and organizing with the DSA Afro-Socialists & Socialists of Color Caucus and the Defund CPD campaign in Chicago.
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