Toward A Pedagogy Of Possibility: On Abolitionist Teaching

• In Event: Abolition and Queer Justice: Nurturing Abolitionist Growth

Abstract

The carceral and eliminatory logics of settler colonialism and imperialism produced our governing social institutions and stretch to pollute even the most intimate of relationships. Carcerality dictates the ways we love, care for, and teach one another. Carcerality is law. It is expected and embraced. Even our classrooms – defying white supremacist fantasies of objectivity and neutrality – are not buffered from the reach of a revenge-driven nation-state. Settler colonialism informs what we teach, how we teach, and our relationship with our students. The chapter will specifically explore the classroom and how various Black, brown, and Indigenous scholars have uprooted white supremacist teachings and paved the possibility for new realities.

Author

• Ihsan Al-zouabi, Rutgers University-Newark