<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

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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...

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

Article Category: ARTICLES

Published Online: Sep 23, 2016

Page range: 85 - 108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/admin-2016-0017

Keywords
Residential care, children, food, governance, home

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

Article Category: ARTICLES

Published Online: Sep 23, 2016

Page range: 85 - 108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/admin-2016-0017

KeywordsResidential care, children, food, governance, home

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Residential care, children, food, governance, home