Children and food practices in residential care: ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home

Dorrer, Nika; McIntosh, Ian; Punch, Samantha; Emond, Ruth

doi:10.1080/14733285.2010.494863

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“…Relationships between staff and teenagers similar to those in families have been identified as important to high-quality residential care, and the family metaphor is often invoked by children in care to indicate good relationships (Dorrer et al, 2010;Kendrick, 2013). However, the architecture and interiors in the kitchens and dining rooms of the studied institutions had originally been created for other problematizations and interessements (Callon, 1986) in previous space-times (Murdoch, 1998) and not especially for residential care for troubled teenagers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The teacher and staff were too late to eat lunch with the teenagers and instead ate in peace after the boys, without trying to make the boys stay and keep them company. Pedagogical lunches are a contested issue, because they mean that the staff never actually have any breaks or their own mealtimes (Dorrer et al, 2010). Perhaps neither the staff nor the boys viewed the mealtime through the lens of the family discourse that the kitchen's material configuration suggested.…”

Section: Vallby Dining Network: Architectural and Materials Failurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mealtimes in HVBs are important events as part of doing family life, often enacted as fellowship around a kitchen table (Kohli, Connolly, & Warman, 2010). However, family life is not an entirely clear-cut practice in the context of residential care, because home, institution, and workplace intersect and might therefore not appear as envisioned by staff in the eyes of the resident teenagers (Dorrer et al, 2010). A point of departure for this study is that teenagers (and all other actors too) might understand the mealtime situation in various ways and act according to these translations.…”

Section: Ambiguous Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 Hem för Vård eller Boende (HVB) in Swedish. (Dorrer, McIntosh, Punch, & Emond, 2010). Certain practices including material components may seek to replicate family life (Kendrick, 2013).…”

Section: Ambiguous Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emergent subjectivity in caring institutions for teenagers

Severinsson

Nord

2015

Pastoral Care in Education

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We investigate how different mealtime situations help shape teenager and staff subjectivities in two Swedish residential care homes and a special school for girls and boys, 12-15 years old, with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties. Three mealtime networks are analysed using concepts from actor-network theory, treating architectural space and artefacts, as well as teenagers and staff, as actors. The architectural spaces in the kitchen and dining room were first created for other purposes than residential care for troubled youth (i.e. a former farm, hospital, and preschool) and have been adapted to be more homelike while coping with housing and feeding 20 or more people. The original architectural spaces as well as activities before mealtimes were powerful actors in the mealtime network, causing different subjectivities to emerge in the translations. The subjectivities emerge in the first network as offenders/guards, in the second network as small children/nannies, and in the third network as guests/service staff. The different translations in the three meal networks create different mobilization opportunities for the teenagers concerning responsibility and normality.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Vallby Dining Network: Architectural and Materials Failurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ambiguous Interventionsmentioning

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Section: Ambiguous Interventionsmentioning

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Severinsson

Nord

2015

Pastoral Care in Education

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“…(Chef, Hillgrove) Food-related conflict is referred to in the literature on residential care (Dorrer et al, 2011;Punch et al, 2009) with regard to control of access to food spaces. Dorrer et al (2011, p. 29) discuss kitchens in residential care being locked 'at a time of difficult group dynamics' due to concerns for safety.…”

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Governance of the table: Regulation of food and eating practices in residential care for young people

Byrne

2016

Administration

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This paper explores how food and eating practices are governed in residential care for young people and who or what governs the table in residential care centres. The governance of everyday food and eating practices in residential care is multifaceted and conducted on multiple levels by external and internal authority and regulation. This paper draws on Coveney's 2008 theory on 'the government of the table' that builds on the Foucauldian perspective of governmentality to explore the interplay between internal and external regulation, which in turn highlights the tensions between institutional and homely aspects of residential care. The approach taken involves an exploratory, sequential mixed-methods design of focused ethnography in five centres, a survey of ninety-two social care practitioners working in the field and a review of Health Information and Quality Authority inspection reports.

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Blurring the boundaries of home: Community eldercare centres as institutional homes in urban China

YiXin

2021

Population Space and Place

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Scholars who study aging in place generally understand home care and community care as distinct but interrelated concepts. They conceptualise home narrowly as a place with defined boundaries that differentiate ‘home’ from ‘unhome’. In this paper, I propose the term ‘institutional home’ to describe a space with fluid boundaries between home and unhome that incorporates aspects of both. Here, ‘home’ is not exclusive to private residential places and homely feelings, but could be constituted outside the private home, with a combination of homely and unhomely feelings. Employing discourse analysis of interviews with older adults and staff, I examine how older adults experience community eldercare centres in China as an institutional home where the practice and meaning of home go beyond one particular space or setting, becoming both home and unhome. This paper contributes to the aging‐in‐place literature by investigating an expanded understanding of home for older adults.

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Children and food practices in residential care: ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home

Cited by 50 publications

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Emergent subjectivity in caring institutions for teenagers

Emergent subjectivity in caring institutions for teenagers

Governance of the table: Regulation of food and eating practices in residential care for young people

Blurring the boundaries of home: Community eldercare centres as institutional homes in urban China

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