Fugitive practices: researching learning, social marginalization, and personhood

Diane M Hoffman

Chapter 25 in Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education, 2026, pp 257-263 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In recent years, the study of learning in the ordinary spaces of life outside schools has received renewed attention among anthropologists. Arguing that attention to learning as a fugitive cultural practice is one way to expand our understanding of learning under conditions of social inequality, this chapter draws from ethnographic fieldwork among socially marginalized children in Haiti to illustrate how children engaged in processes of self-education that enabled them to craft identities of value despite their precarious social status. However, studying learning as fugitive practice poses significant theoretical and methodological challenges. The chapter considers how ethnographic attention to movement and sensorial dimensions of experience can deepen approaches to understanding the intimate connections between learning and personhood under conditions of extreme social disadvantage.

Keywords: Learning; Social disadvantage; Personhood; Haiti; Fugitivity; Cultural practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332908
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