Sarah E. Truman|Abigail Hackett|Kate Pahl|Larissa McLean Davies|Hugh Escott
The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
University of Melbourne|Manchester Metropolitan University|Manchester Metropolitan University|University of Melbourne|Sheffield Hallam University
abstract authors considered capacious feeling emerges saying literacy practices affective potential saying literacy practice authors highlight affective possibilities saying normative understandings literacy thinking series vignettes children young people teachers refused literacy practices different ways authors use term capacious signal possibilities yet unthought sense broadening opening enacting authors examined attention affect ruptures humanist logics inform normative approaches literacy attention nonconscious noncognitive transindividual bodily forces capacities affect deprivileges human sole agent interaction thus disrupting measurements counts literate subject counts literacy event affective moment signal pushback absence silence theoretical methodological way thinkingfeeling literacy affect proposes problems rather solutions countering solutionfocused research resistance overcome coopted solved affect operates crack chink tiny ripple barely perceivable gesture persist hold open possibility alternative futures