The Colonization of the Schoolyard and the Challenge of Corporeal Justice

Critical Analysis of the Educational Freedom Bill from a Rights Perspective and the Defense of the Public Sphere

Abstract

The text critically analyzes the Educational Freedom Bill (Proyecto de Ley de Libertad Educativa), interpreting it as the establishment of a neoliberal governmentality apparatus that radicalizes educational necropolitics. It is argued that the legislation, through state subsidiarity and the logic of the voucher system, dismantles the public sphere and promotes a curricular epistemicide by reducing Physical Education to a utilitarian training of "sports skills." This operation enshrines teacher precarization through the figure of the idóneo (uncertified instructor) and transforms the schoolyard into a field of Darwinian selection of human capital. Against the tyranny of performance and "compulsory able-bodiedness," the text postulates the category of Corporeal Justice as an ethical imperative. Articulating contributions from Bourdieu’s sociology, Iris Marion Young’s phenomenology, and Butler’s performativity, it proposes a defense of the education of the body as a redistributive right. The analysis is enriched by an intersectional perspective and contributions from Crip Theory, denouncing how the reform reproduces class, gender, race, and ability oppressions. Finally, the public school is reclaimed as a "territory of counter-destiny" and a counter-hegemonic space, capable of decommodifying the desire for movement, accommodating radical interdependence, and restoring the political sovereignty of all corporalities against the logic of disposal.