About
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics advances scholarship and fosters dialogue to understand, critique, and challenge racial capitalism. Grounded in materialist geography and theory, and committed to social and economic justice, the center supports critical inquiry on abolition, migration, borders, imperialism, labor, and more.
Founded in 2000 by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Neil Smith and led by renowned scholars such as David Harvey and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the interdisciplinary center has a global reputation as a research institute grounded in critical and abolitionist politics and geographies.
We provide an intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide range of issues relevant to both the academic and public interest, and center the concept of praxis, as both “action about” and as “knowledge toward.” To this end, we bring together those at the intersection of organizing and scholarship to share strategies for effectively linking knowledge production and political action.
Seminar
Each year, we select CUNY faculty and graduate student fellows from diverse disciplines to explore a specific theme through a weekly seminar, guided by the core principle of developing collaborative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary bases for radical knowledge and practice. We welcome visiting scholars from around the world to participate in the seminar and the activities of the center.
Public Programming
To further our mission, we organize and host public presentations and lectures by prominent national and international scholars, organizers, artists, and activists, along with symposia, workshops, and working groups.
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