S2: Episode 4: Abolition Geographies, Abolitionist Futures

This season we’ve been talking about COVID-19, carceral spaces and abolition. In this episode of the season we share a brief intro on abolition geographies, and how and why geographers are thinking with and doing abolitionist work. Then we return to organizers featured throughout this season as well as introduce new ones to ground abolitionist practice, asking: what does abolition mean for people doing the work? What has and does it look like? And how does this connect to decarceral movements and movements beyond the site of the prison?

Host 1: Finally, we end the episode by asking what are abolitionist futures? For this, we focus on a panel conversation among food sovereignty and food justice activists across the country who are connecting their work to abolitionist struggles and visions for what friends and colleagues call “desirable futures.”