Miss Zofia Boni
Overview
- Name:
- Miss Zofia Boni
- Email address:
- zofia_boni@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Feeding children in "post-socialist" Poland - discourses, practices and values (working title)
- Year of Study:
- 1st (2011)
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
Feeding children is a complex problem that combines many different agents and institutions such as family, state, educational systems, medical and nutritional polices, food industries, advertising and marketing, and the media. It concerns individual and collective minds, as well as public and private spheres, and is an extremely political issue. I plan to conduct research on the feeding of children (but not infants) in Poland, taking into account the multidimensionality of this problem. I will focus mainly on three areas: (1) the family, (2) the educational system and (3) the media. I will analyse discourses and practices concerning the feeding of children occuring in the three above mentioned domains, with the focal point being how they interact and influence each other. In my thesis I will try to answer such research questions as:
What cultural norms and values are transmitted to children through feeding practices, and what kind of agents participate in these processes?
How do children deal with different, often contradictory, models concerning food and eating that they receive from various sources?
How are food practices related to the notions of "proper parenting" and models of the modern man and women? And how have they changed in "post-socialist" Poland?
