Imagine…: Abolitionist Worlding as Refusal of Educational Deathscapes and Necropolitics

• In Event: Worlding Otherwise: (Non)Spatial Refusals and Affective (Im)Possibilities

Abstract

Using the collaborative imaginings of the co-authors counternarrative, this paper describes how educational deathscapes and necropolitics can be resisted and refused through abolitionist ideas and ideals of teaching and learning. Toward these ends, the authors call for pre-service teachers to be deeply connected to the field of curriculum studies and abolitionist pedagogies as a way to increase educators’ cultural toolkits and their abilities to implement these skills in the classroom. What has been produced through this work is a kind of radical imagining of what school could be when an abolitionist geographies are enacted, mental health is foregrounded, and school becomes a place where notions of love, respect, and care undergird all intra-actions in school.

Author

• Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University - Abington