Article: Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies of Kentucky
In her new paper “Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies of Kentucky,” American University School of International Service Provost Associate Professor Dr. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace invites readers on a journey through space and time in a state with echoes of an oppressive, racially stratified agricultural past and a present of both agrarian exploitation and resistance. “This state names a land of Indigenous genocide, African enslavement, racial agro-capitalism, and ecological degradations; it also names a place, wherein people valiantly counter these violences,” she explains. In exploring both the tragedy and the defiance alive in Kentucky’s rural and urban agrarian communities, Graddy-Lovelace opens readers to a future of hope offered by abolitionist agrarian geographies, which aim to trace and transform the systems of power that shape our current food system. “Place-based abolitionist agrarian geographies are needed to study, trace, excavate, and learn agrarian histories and spatialities, to find our way out from colonialist legacies of ecological, economic, and epistemic extraction.”
You read the full article here: 10.1177/25148486231187795
