Self-made school and the everyday making in Buenos Aires slums

GRINBERG, SILVIA

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Taylor & Francis

Año: 2019 p. 1 - 18

0142-5692

A governmentality ethnographic approach is adopted to examine theeveryday making of school in Buenos Aires slums. By addressing eventsat the intersection of the life of school and of the neighborhood, in thisarticle we problematize schooling ? how it is put together and the tensions that beset it on a daily basis. The notion of the self-made schoolis proposed as a way to delve into how management society calls onthe population to manage itself. We identify micro-procedures that takethe shape of silent struggles to turn the school/neighborhood into aplace to live. As a hypothesis, we propose that school is produced atthe intersection of everyday struggles and the struggle for the everydayin the context of the precarization of life in the age of management.From a methodological standpoint what are at play are not dichotomies,but rather the stickiness and tension of daily practices.