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@proceedings{1361513,
author = {Synek, Michal and Hradcová, Dana},
booktitle = {American Studies Association Annual Meeting Denver 2016, Critical Disability Studies Caucus},
keywords = {disability, institutionalization, food},
title = {How to make homey meal in not-so-homey kitchen: Home metaphors in repertoires of institutional dining},
url = {https://www.academia.edu/30004748/How_to_make_homey_meal_in_not-so-homey_kitchen_Home_metaphors_in_repertoires_of_institutional_dining},
year = {2016}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1361513
AU - Synek, Michal - Hradcová, Dana
PY - 2016
TI - How to make homey meal in not-so-homey kitchen: Home metaphors in repertoires of institutional dining
KW - disability, institutionalization, food
UR - https://www.academia.edu/30004748/How_to_make_homey_meal_in_not-so-homey_kitchen_Home_metaphors_in_repertoires_of_institutional_dining
N2 - In the Czech Republic, the process of "transformation of social services" for "persons with disabilities" has been ongoing. Various efforts to re-organise cooking and dining form an integral part of quality improvement programmes, aimed at "deinstitutionalization" and "humanization" of residential care. This paper describes the role of the home metaphor in repertoires of dining in "care homes for persons with disabilities", contributing to the broader research of modes of ordering dis/ability. The metaphor of "home" organises regimes of care around the idealised notions of communality and privacy. In institutions offering services to up to three hundred people, various activities and events of everyday life could be sanctioned by reference to benefits of homey atmosphere. In this context, the notion of ideal home for disabled-identified could pertain to collective living, favouring commune cause over privacy and individual differences. Against this, in the discourse of "transformation of the social services", the normalising faculty of "home" serves to enforce right to privacy, postulated on the basis of the equality and the normality principles. The ideal of small private "home" – embodied in the official limits to the number of inhabitants of the transformed institutions' units – structures both organization of the big care homes and architecture of the newly established households. At the same time, the comparison with "the ways we do it at home" positions the practices of the care home in relation to private, locally situated lives of the carers and the cared-for. Apart of normative, legitimizing and positioning functions of the home metaphor in the institutionalized modes of ordering care, "home" – real and imagined – also serves as ideal site for engrossment, motivational displacement and reciprocity, described by the relational model of care. These motives are often evoked in the narratives of the carers, accounting for moments of experiencing closeness, attentiveness and safety based on appreciation of differences. However, in the eyes of the carers, the ethical ideals of relational care are often compromised by the very same modes of ordering care which claim to enhance the domesticity of the care settings. While different and often incompatible conditions of possibility for a home-like living (including the making of a homey meal) are being postulated and strived for, the relation between privatizing and decentralisation of "homes for persons with disabilities" and enactment of the ethical ideal of relational care is by no means straightforward. With the principle of symmetry in mind, both competing sites – collective living and private household – must be described and analysed by the same means, while the oppressive nature of many institutional and home-like regimes of care must be counterbalanced by the researcher's heightened sensitivity to the needs and opinions of the disabled-identified. What, in their eyes, is "homey" about the "homey meals" cooked and served in various care settings? Could a "homey meal" be prepared in the not-so-homey kitchen? And could the home metaphor be used to organise care in such way that it serves the interest of both the carers and the cared-for?
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SYNEK, Michal and Dana HRADCOVÁ. How to make homey meal in not-so-homey kitchen: Home metaphors in repertoires of institutional dining. In \textit{American Studies Association Annual Meeting Denver 2016, Critical Disability Studies Caucus}. 2016.
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