The mattering of place in the corporatised governance of schooling in subordinated communities

<br/>In this article, I critically examine how place matters for parental <br/>engagement in the governance of schooling in subordinated <br/>communities. Thinking with Barad’s concept of intra-action, I <br/>explore how place physically embodies meaning, in its <br/>entanglement with human actors to configure corporatised <br/>versions of parental engagement. I argue that place acts co- <br/>agentically in an entangled intra-action with corporate actors <br/>managing parents’ engagement, positioning expertise, acting as <br/>promoters of public relations and exercising control. I make two <br/>contributions. Firstly, I provide an analytical construct to explore <br/>the mattering of place in the corporatisation of parents’ <br/>engagement. Secondly, using Barad’s concept of intra-action, I <br/>have provided a novel way of thinking about the role of place in <br/>the configuration of parental engagement in the corporatised <br/>governance of schooling to critically explore how the matter of <br/>the embodied place articulates the boundaries of agentic <br/>relations in these human and non-human intra-actions.