The mattering of place in the corporatised governance of schooling in subordinated communities
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this article, I critically examine how place matters for parental engagement in the governance of schooling in subordinated communities. Thinking with Barad’s concept of intra-action, I explore how place physically embodies meaning, in its entanglement with human actors to configure corporatised versions of parental engagement. I argue that place acts co-agentically in an entangled intra-action with corporate actors managing parents’ engagement, positioning expertise, acting as promoters of public relations and exercising control. I make two contributions. Firstly, I provide an analytical construct to explore the mattering of place in the corporatisation of parents’ engagement. Secondly, using Barad’s concept of intra-action, I have provided a novel way of thinking about the role of place in the configuration of parental engagement in the corporatised governance of schooling to critically explore how the matter of the embodied place articulates the boundaries of agentic relations in these human and non-human intra-actions.
Author: Karen Healey
Institution: University of Manchester
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413916594