ABSTRACT This article examines the way a group of Latina girls responded to instances of sexual harassment in a public high school in Madrid (Spain). I begin with a current event: educational reforms seeking to address the ‘problem’ of youth democratic disengagement. Drawing on ethnographic and genealogical modes of inquiry, I examine the subjective capacities (technologies of the body) that were being developed by these girls in the attempt to respond to instances of sexual harassment—silencing and under-sexualizing their bodies. This study steps back from any straightforward truth-claim about education, citizenship, and responsibility in democratic societies in favour of taking a longer view of how citizens are produced within its situated democratic culture—here, regime of conviviality. This article concludes that these girls’ bodily response to instances of sexual harassment in school cannot be dissociated from the historical production of the logics of conviviality that grounds this educational reform, where dissent is displaced from democratic culture. Ultimately, this article transcends notions of the political in human agency that parallels responsible citizenship with resisting social norms to conclude that notions of the political in human agency cannot be dislocated from the historically contingent discursive traditions in which they are located.

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参与、身体技术和代理：负责任公民话语的局限性

摘要 本文考察了一群拉丁裔女孩如何应对马德里（西班牙）一所公立高中的性骚扰事件。我从一个时事开始：寻求解决青年民主脱离“问题”的教育改革。利用人种学和谱系学的调查模式，我检查了这些女孩正在开发的主观能力（身体技术），以试图应对性骚扰的实例——使她们的身体沉默和性化不足。本研究从任何关于民主社会中的教育、公民身份和责任的直截了当的真理主张退后一步，转而从更长远的角度看待公民如何在其所处的民主文化中产生——这里是欢乐制度。本文的结论是，这些女孩对学校性骚扰事件的身体反应不能与作为这种教育改革基础的欢乐逻辑的历史产物分离，在那里异议从民主文化中被取代。最终，本文超越了将负责任的公民与抵制社会规范相提并论的人类代理中的政治概念，得出结论，人类代理中的政治概念不能与它们所处的历史偶然性话语传统脱节。