TY - JOUR
T1 - Striated Agency and Smooth Regulation
T2 - Kindergarten Mealtime as an Ambiguous Space for the Construction of Child and Adult Relations
AU - Hansen, Stine Rosenlund
AU - Hansen, Mette Weinreich
AU - Kristensen, Niels Heine
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Deploying an everyday life approach, this article focuses on the kindergarten meal, defined as a space in which humans, materials and discursive elements interact. The article identifies and discusses two co-existing perspectives on the everyday meals that emphasise children as future beings and here-and-now beings. Through the concepts of smoothing and striation the paper discusses how these perspectives produce different mechanisms of regulation and agency, and position the eaters differently. The paper emphasises kindergarten mealtime as an ambiguous space that does not offer simple discussions about good and bad meal situations. The paper thereby adds to the existing literature within children’s geographies which emphasise interactional, relational and material aspects of children’s lives. It does so by revisiting some concepts, striation and smoothing, that has been used to explore children’s spaces and child–adult relations, but argue that these concepts describe ambivalent and complex processes in children’s and adult’s everyday lives.
AB - Deploying an everyday life approach, this article focuses on the kindergarten meal, defined as a space in which humans, materials and discursive elements interact. The article identifies and discusses two co-existing perspectives on the everyday meals that emphasise children as future beings and here-and-now beings. Through the concepts of smoothing and striation the paper discusses how these perspectives produce different mechanisms of regulation and agency, and position the eaters differently. The paper emphasises kindergarten mealtime as an ambiguous space that does not offer simple discussions about good and bad meal situations. The paper thereby adds to the existing literature within children’s geographies which emphasise interactional, relational and material aspects of children’s lives. It does so by revisiting some concepts, striation and smoothing, that has been used to explore children’s spaces and child–adult relations, but argue that these concepts describe ambivalent and complex processes in children’s and adult’s everyday lives.
KW - Child–adult relations
KW - agency
KW - mealtime
KW - regulation
KW - smoothing
KW - striation
U2 - 10.1080/14733285.2016.1238040
DO - 10.1080/14733285.2016.1238040
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1473-3285
VL - 15
SP - 237
EP - 248
JO - Children's Geographies
JF - Children's Geographies
IS - 2
ER -