Walking Away

<p class=ql-align-justify>Walking away is both refusal and production (Tuck & Yang 2014) a seeming paradox taken up in work on fugitivity and marronage (Diouf 2021; Grant Woodson & Dumas 2021; Harney & Moten 2013; Hartman 2007) survivance (Powell 2002; Sabzalian 2019; Vizenor 2008) testimonios (Calderon-Berumen 2021; Delgado Bernal Burciaga & Flores Carmona 2012; Latina Feminist Group 2001) and other forms of critical pedagogy and curriculum. In other words walking away presumes both the rejection of a form of status quo (walking away from something) and a new direction taken (a walking toward something else). In the context of education many teachers and researchers have reached that breaking point where/when no more curricular/pedagogic violence can be survived and it is in that moment that those researchers and teachers actively remove themselves from those systems and assert new courses with new possibilities. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>This edited volume is a collection of works chronicling acts of refusal that manifest as walking away. In some cases what is walked away from is the erasure of experience in curriculum while in others it is a fundamentalist religious experience. In still other cases what is walked away from is the carceral nature of school discipline policies. In each case walking away is resistance refusal and re/co-producing new possibilities and agencies. What is walked toward is a new curriculum/pedagogy of resistance sometimes within and sometimes without that place.</p><p> </p>