Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting
Vina Adriany, Marek Tesař
Abstract
Abstract This paper interrogates the discourses of stunting in Indonesia and its links to early childhood education. Here, stunting is analysed via Foucault's work, with data stemming from a long‐term ethnography study and analysis of relevant policy documents in Indonesia. We argue the discourses of stunting have been regulating children, teachers and parents by acting as a form of biopower of governing rationalities. Focusing merely on the individual and nutrition aspects, the discourses overlook larger societal problems. In such a space, the children, teachers and parents become a site of the state's surveillance and are produced as docile bodies.
Topics & Concepts
BiopowerUnpackingIndonesianEthnographySociologyEarly childhood educationGender studiesGovernmentalityState (computer science)Space (punctuation)Work (physics)Childhood studiesChildhood educationPoliticsPolitical sciencePedagogyDevelopmental psychologyPsychologyAnthropologyLawMechanical engineeringPhilosophyComputer scienceLinguisticsAlgorithmEngineeringChild Nutrition and Water AccessPoverty, Education, and Child WelfarePublic Health and Nutrition