Food and Relationships: Children’s Experiences in Residential Care
Food and Relationships: Children’s Experiences in Residential Care
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食物与人际关系：儿童在寄宿护理中的经历
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2009
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N. Dorrer
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作者：
S. Punch;Ian McIntosh;Ruth Emond;N. Dorrer
儿童获得食物的机会以及围绕食物进行的谈判超出了直系亲属关系的范围，延伸到儿童的社会和教育世界。因此，食物可以在他们的其他社会和机构领域，如学校，医院或住宿护理的经验中发挥重要作用。食物是日常生活中必不可少的一部分，我们对它的熟悉意味着我们往往很少关注它的意义和行为。然而，在机构背景下研究食物可以提供一个迷人的洞察机构的内在生活和围绕食物实践的关系。我们认为，食物不仅在功能上起作用，作为食物，而且还具有象征意义，是表达关怀和建立关系的一种方式。它成为孩子们在日常生活中导航的一种手段。饮食习惯也可能是紧张和冲突的场所，在这些场所周围，一系列情绪和关系的多面性可能会暴露出来。
Children’s access to food, and the negotiations that take place around it, extend beyond the realm of immediate family relations to children’s social and educational worlds. Food can thus play an essential part in their experience of other social and institutional arenas such as schools, hospitals or residential care. Food is both an essential and mundane part of everyday life and our familiarity with it can mean that we often pay little attention to the meanings and actions that surround it. However, the study of food within institutional contexts can offer a fascinating insight into the inner life of the institution and the relationships that can revolve around food practices. Food, we suggest, works not only functionally, as sustenance, but also symbolically and as a way to show care and build relationships. It becomes a means by which children can navigate through much of their daily life. Food practices can also be sites of tension and conflict around which a range of emotions and the multifaceted nature of relationships may be exposed.