ABSTRACT

Education policy internationally positions schools as central sites of intervention on ‘obesity epidemics’, particularly in working class communities. This article presents a moral geographies approach which examines how such obesity-focused healthy food imperatives are experienced in specific places and times. The authors draw on data from a participatory photo mapping exercise with 11-year-old girls in a working class school setting in Ireland. Rather than focus on the girls’ food consumption through classed, deficit-based discourses of individual restraint or pleasure, they consider their food desires to be an ethico-political force for connection, identification and potential reconstruction of what constitutes ‘good’ food. The participants were adept at performing officially ‘good’ food knowledge, but also constructed food-based identities and relationships that challenged prevailing, individualised imperatives to ‘make healthy choices’. The findings underline the importance of critical pedagogies of food desire, which could engage factors such as the strengths of family and community food cultures.

摘要

国际教育政策将学校定位为干预“肥胖流行病”的中心场所，尤其是在工人阶级社区。本文提出了一种道德地理学方法，该方法研究了在特定地点和时间如何体验这种以肥胖为中心的健康食品需求。作者借鉴了爱尔兰工人阶级学校环境中 11 岁女孩参与式照片映射练习的数据。与其通过分类的、基于赤字的个人克制或愉悦的话语来关注女孩的食物消费，她们认为她们的食物欲望是一种伦理政治力量，用于联系、识别和潜在重建什么构成“好”食物。参与者擅长表演官方“好”的食物知识，但也构建了基于食物的身份和关系，挑战了“做出健康选择”的普遍、个性化的要求。研究结果强调了食物欲望的批判性教学法的重要性，这可能涉及家庭和社区饮食文化的优势等因素。