necropolitics
Necropolitics, associated with Achille Mbembe, refers to the power to decide whose lives are protected, neglected, exposed to harm, or treated as disposable. In education, it can help analyse systems that preserve budgets or order while allowing some children to deteriorate.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…