Praxis of Refusal and Fugitivity As Counter-Pedagogy

When the “everywhereness and everywhenness of settler colonialism and racial capitalism,” to use Angela Harris words, limits the possibilities of justice through liberal institutions, this paper looks at some of the social movements that have centred a praxis of refusal or fugitivity to create a counter-pedagogy and produced sites for imagining alternative futurities and jurisgeneration. Using the framework of fugitive resistance from the Black radical traditions, the paper compares two seemingly oppositional groups of movements: abolitionist movements such as the no-borders and abolition feminism, that reject nation-state formations, with Palestine liberation and Indigenous sovereignty movements that are traditionally framed as nationalist claims of statehood. The paper argues that the radical articulations within both these groups share a common praxis of "fugitivity” — a refusal, disavowal, and disengagement with the discourses thrust by the Eurocentric, racial capitalist order.