Bodies that matter in the backyard: Precarity and special school in contexts of urban poverty

Abstract

This article proposes, through research results in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires, to characterize inclusion-exclusion tensions in a special education school in urban poverty contexts. Through an ethnographic work, we describe the precarity that becomes double in these schools. The notion bodies in the backyard problematizes the tensions to escape exclusion. We propose that the logics of self-management become forms of exclusive inclusion, where teachers develop micro-strategies so that schooling becomes precarious, bodies matter.