Abolitionist feminist geography: A framework for investigating the spatial dimensions of carceral reproductive injustice

Carceral spaces and practices threaten the reproductive rights of women and gender diverse people. As the global population of people in prisons for women is growing, there is a need for research exploring how the spaces and practices of detainment produce reproductive injustice. This article provides an overview of existing geographic and reproductive justice scholarship within the context of incarceration and reproductive rights, identifies potential convergences between reproductive justice theory and fields of abolition and carceral geography, and proposes a research agenda of abolitionist feminist geography to guide inquiry into the experience of carceral spaces as sites of reproductive injustice.