Mapping Escape: Articulations of Agency Within Educational Enclosure

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Abstract

This paper attempts to map the practice of escape, the articulations of agency racially marked youth engage in through movement, at Northport High School, a mid-sized city in the Midwest. Drawing on spatial mapping and walk-along interviews with six racially marked youth, I trace the many ways they traverse school space despite institutional attempts to rob them of their agency. Using ethnographic methods centered on youth’s embodied spatial practices, this study contributes to scholarship on how schools function as sites of educational enclosure (Sojoyner, 2016; Gilmore, 2022; Woods, 1998) and how the dynamics of enclosure are experienced in everyday, moment-to-moment basis.

Author

• Anisa Yudawanti, Stanford University