Educational Necropolitics: A Sonic Ethnography of Everyday Racisms in U.S. Schools

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Abstract

This paper describes what the author has named Educational Necropolitics, a theoretical framework that explicates the process through which schools dictate whose ways of being, knowing, and doing should survive and thrive in schools, and to what degree minoritized students’ ontoepistemologies should be silenced or murdered (Love, 2019) through various forms of curriculum. The methodological framework for this study uses Gershon’s (2017) sonic ethnography (Gershon, 2017) to create a space where participant voices, stories, and experiences are heard to better explicate the how educational necropolitics happen in schools and across systems of schooling daily.

Author

• Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University - Abington
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