Striated Agency and Smooth Regulation: Kindergarten Mealtime as an Ambiguous Space for the Construction of Child and Adult Relations

摘要: ABSTRACTDeploying an everyday life approach, this article focuses on the kindergarten meal, defined as a space in which humans, materials and discursive elements interact. The identifies discusses two co-existing perspectives meals that emphasise children future beings here-and-now beings. Through concepts of smoothing striation paper how these produce different mechanisms regulation agency, position eaters differently. emphasises mealtime ambiguous does not offer simple discussions about good bad meal situations. thereby adds to existing literature within children’s geographies interactional, relational material aspects lives. It so by revisiting some concepts, smoothing, has been used explore spaces child–adult relations, but argue describe ambivalent complex proce...