“My head between blankets”: exploring trauma and affective injustice in the school life trajectory of a female student in Argentina

PORTO, MELINA; ZEMBYLAS, MICHALINOS

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Routledge

Año: 2024

school life trajectory of a female student (Sofia) in Argentina. The studyis theoretically grounded in the field of trauma studies in education andcontributes to this literature by attending to affective injustice, a conceptthat has not received much attention yet. This study foregrounds Sofia’sexperience of affective injustice and demonstrates that this concept iscrucial in further understanding students’ experiences of affective traumain school. Assembling rich materials (report cards, interviews, psychologists’reports, social media posts, autobiographical texts) that span over aperiod of 17 years, the study uses qualitative perspectives to show howSofia understands and experiences affective injustice in various phases ofher school life. In particular, these experiences are presented in the formof an assemblage of expressions showing how Sofia communicates herclaims of affective injustice using varied means and resources rangingfrom linguistic, behavioural, biographical, creative, emotional, bodily, andartistic expression. The paper concludes with a discussion of the educationalimplications of the study.