Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · 2021 · 11 citations · 1 references
HumanitiesGeographyHuman GeographyAfrican American HistoryBlack Intellectual HistoryPolicingAfrican American Spatial CultureBlack GeographiesBlack Social MovementsBlack Social TheoryBlack StudiesRacismAbolitionist GeographyBlack Feminist GeographiesBlack Spatial ImaginariesBlack Urban GeographiesPolicing AbolitionPolicing GeographiesRacial Violence Narratives
Abstract This essay offers the concept of Black ground truths as a critical geographic method for scholarship and organising. Black ground truths encompass Black experiential practices of understanding the present world's limitations and building toward new, more liberated geographic possibilities. Centring the movement for police abolition, this essay urges us to look to existing Black liberatory place‐making praxes to better understand how to transfigure sites of policing and other forms of racial violence.
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