@article{Heynen_2015, title={If I am Troy Davis, I Failed Troy Davis: Abolishing the Death Penalty through an Antiracist People’s Geography}, volume={14}, url={https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1084}, abstractNote={<h2>In the wake of Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis, the importance of antiracist geographic thought has become ever more pertinent for clarifying how democratic politics and a people’s geography can help to bring about the abolition of the death penalty in the U.S.  This paper seeks to engage the painful historical-geographical legacies of white supremacism and the ways it has enabled capital punishment with an eye to moving toward a less violent and less dehumanizing state.  More specifically, I imagine my historical-geographical engagement to provide a foundation from which to discuss putting into motion more deliberately what W.E.B. DuBois referred to as “Abolition Democracy”.  In realizing the potential of DuBois’ notion of abolition democracy though, I will suggest more geographical attention to the ways racialized geographies have not been as explicitly connected to the notion of a people’s geography.</h2>}, number={4}, journal={ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies}, author={Heynen, Nik}, year={2015}, month={Dec.}, pages={1066–1082} }