This introduction calls for political ecology to systematically engage with the ways that white supremacy shapes human relationships with land through entangled processes of settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism. To develop the analytic of abolition ecology, we begin with the articulation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ abolition democracy together with Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s spatially attuned analytic of abolition geography. Rather than define communities by the violence they suffer, abolition ecologies call for attention to radical place‐making and the land, air and water based environments within which places are made. To that end, we suggest that an abolition ecology demands attention to the ways that coalitional land‐based politics dismantle oppressive institutions and to the promise of abolition, which Gilmore describes as making “freedom as a place”.

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废除生态与“自由地”

引言要求政治生态系统通过定居者殖民主义，帝国和种族资本主义的纠缠过程，系统地参与白人至上主义塑造人类与土地关系的方式。为了发展废除生态学的分析，我们首先阐述杜波依斯（WE Bo Du Bois）废除民主与鲁思·威尔逊·吉尔摩（Ruth Wilson Gilmore）对废除地理学进行空间协调的分析。废除生态学不仅要根据遭受的暴力来定义社区，还需要注意激进的场所营造以及在其中放置场所的基于土地，空气和水的环境。为此，我们建议，废除生态学需要关注联盟的陆基政治拆除压迫性机构的方式以及废除废除的承诺，