Radical placemaking is a verb
How might the practice of radical placemaking make new lifeworlds possible? In this commentary, I respond to Kass and Dunlap's argument that procedural abolitionism bears responsibility for counterinsurgency in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd rebellion. While I appreciate the urgency of critically examining strategies for abolition, I come to different conclusions than the authors’ divide between procedural, insurrectionary, and autonomous strategies for abolition. Instead, I point to radical placemaking as enacting a solidarity that allows for a prefigurative politics to emerge beyond the boundaries of ideological difference, demonstrating the importance of solidarity in worldmaking.
Authors
- Megan Ybarra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3074-5006)
Institutions
- University of California San Diego (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Dialogues in Human Geography
- Published
- 2025-06-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251345548
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 11.18