ABSTRACT

Food concerns practices with material and discursive effects on bodies, involving, at the same time, relations of power and care. The international debate has widely analysed food in terms of biopolitical technologies and ethics of care, paying particular attention to school meals. In particular, school canteens constitute physical and relational contested spaces, characterized by different rationalities and perspectives. Drawing from qualitative research carried out in Turin, Italy, this paper unpacks school food discourses and practices by analysing the coexistence and entanglements of biopower and care. Starting from the awareness of the fluidity of these categories, the paper suggests that food at school be neither connected nor reduced to a dichotomous and static view. It proposes a more nuanced understanding of food practices, in which forms of productive biopower and subversive care are deeply intertwined and it discusses how children, staff and parents daily negotiate these entanglements.

摘要

食物涉及对身体产生物质和话语影响的实践，同时涉及权力和关怀的关系。国际辩论从生命政治技术和护理伦理方面广泛分析了食物，特别关注学校膳食。特别是，学校食堂构成了物理和关系的竞争空间，具有不同的理性和视角。本文借鉴在意大利都灵进行的定性研究，通过分析生物权力和关怀的共存和纠葛，解开学校食品的话语和实践。从对这些类别流动性的认识出发，论文提出，学校的食物既不联系也不简化为二分法和静态的观点。它提出了对食品实践的更细致入微的理解，