ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how organization of school meals mobilizes care through the enactment of biopedagogies in their biopolitical and disciplining modes. It provides a brief historical overview of the evolution of school meal policies in Portugal in order to understand what ethics of care have been historically present and how they frame the organization of food practices in schools. The chapter analyses how interrogating biopedagogies of school meals reveals tensions and adjustments that often emerge during the performance of non-direct forms of care, such as designing school meal policies and implementing healthy food initiatives. It focuses onto children's bodies and eating practices in order to explore acceptance, negotiation and resistance strategies in which children often engage while embodying, and corporeally disrupting, school meal biopedagogies. The chapter explores practical constraints that emerge during the organization of school meals and the benefits of perceiving an ethic of care as a process of mutual understanding wherein bodies often become entangled and negotiated things.
