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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.47,Issue5,P.640-670

语言

英文

关键字

biopedagogies; de Certeau; school canteen; school meal; strategy and tactics; SOCIAL-CLASS; FOOD; HEALTH; PEDAGOGIES; EDUCATION; BUSINESS; MOTHERS; POLICY; MEALS

作者单位

[Oncini, Filippo] Univ Trento, Dept Sociol & Social Res, Via Verdi 20, I-38122 Trento, Italy. Oncini, F (reprint author), Univ Trento, Dept Sociol & Social Res, Via Verdi 20, I-38122 Trento, Italy. E-Mail: filippo.oncini@unitn.it

摘要

In this ethnography of three Italian primary school canteens I use de Certeau's concepts of strategy and tactics to examine how the biopolitical construction of a healthy meal is subjected to resistances by parents, teachers, children, and cooks. I first illustrate how the top-down model on nutrition stems from global and national organizations, is deciphered and transformed by local agencies, and eventually becomes a healthy meal, perfectly balanced in its nutrients. Later, I show how subjects involved in its reception challenge the top-down model and develop intentional tactics that withstand the scientific knowledge of the nutritionists that construct the menu: parents and teachers contest the experts' authority, cooks cheat on grams, children eat more (or less) than they should. Taking a different approach from studies that highlight the undesirable and coercive outcomes of biopower, I argue that in these school canteens subjects are not trapped by biopedagogies but deploy their agencies by questioning, eluding, and even subverting the rationale of the school meal.