TY - JOUR AU - Heynen, Nik PY - 2015/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - If I am Troy Davis, I Failed Troy Davis: Abolishing the Death Penalty through an Antiracist People’s Geography JF - ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies JA - ACME VL - 14 IS - 4 SE - Themed Section - Geographies of Capital Punishment in the United States DO - UR - https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1084 SP - 1066-1082 AB - <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> ER -