| dc.contributor.advisor | Roy, Srirupa Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bonaker, Alva | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-23T18:35:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-30T00:50:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-03-23 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?ediss-11858/14594 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9773 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Stipendium der Max Weber Stiftung im Rahmen der Transnational Research Group – Poverty Reduction and Policy for the Poor between the State and Private Actors: Education Policy in India since the Nineteenth Century | de |
| dc.format.extent | XXX Seiten | de |
| dc.language.iso | eng | de |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.ddc | 300 | de |
| dc.title | Just Lunch: An Ethnography of School Meals and Poverty in Delhi | de |
| dc.type | doctoralThesis | de |
| dc.contributor.referee | Roy, Srirupa Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.date.examination | 2022-04-01 | de |
| dc.description.abstracteng | This dissertation examines the actual social outcomes of one of the largest and most prominent social policies of the Indian government in the field of poverty reduction and education – the so-called Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS). It seeks to answer the question: To what extent does the Indian Mid Day Meal Scheme contribute to reducing inequalities? The analysis draws primarily on own empirical research (conducted in 2015/16 in Delhi) including participant observation and semi-structured interviews as well as informal conversations with students, parents and teachers of two governmental primary schools, staff members of one large-scale kitchen as well as other relevant actors of the research area. Additionally, data from enrolment registers of the two schools is analysed. In the exploration of different aspects in which the MDMS might contribute to reducing inequalities, the focus lies on examining the scheme’s contribution to weakening caste, class and gender inequalities. Further, the MDMS is also discussed as an incentive to go to school and as a nutritional contribution to the children – most of them belonging to very poor low caste families (including a high share of Dalits) who have migrated from rural areas. Finally, the dissertation also assesses how, by whom, according to which rationalities and with what consequences the MDMS is governed, discussing how welfare, humanitarian, neoliberal and rights based approaches coexist and intersect in this scheme. Overall, the analysis reveals that in the processes and arrangements of food preparation and eating that are examined, it creates opportunities for the reduction of inequalities to some extent. However, it is argued that the MDMS in not a driving force for the reduction of inequalities. Central findings that point to this conclusion are the highly unequal nature of the educational system, the increasing invisibility of caste prejudices that nonetheless persist and the employment practices under the scheme that reproduce traditional gender and caste stereotypes and inequalities. Moreover, in the research area, to reduce inequalities appears to be a focus neither of the school staff and the kitchen management in the way they handle the processes, nor in the supervision and monitoring of the scheme by the government. Hence, in the way the MDMS is embedded in the existing social structures and power relations of the society, which largely replicate inequalities, it does also contribute to reproducing inequalities. | de |
| dc.contributor.coReferee | Viswanath, Rupa Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.contributor.thirdReferee | Balagopalan, Sarada Dr. | |
| dc.subject.eng | Mid Day Meal Scheme | de |
| dc.subject.eng | India | de |
| dc.subject.eng | caste | de |
| dc.subject.eng | gender | de |
| dc.subject.eng | primary education | de |
| dc.subject.eng | inequality | de |
| dc.subject.eng | poverty | de |
| dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-ediss-14594-0 | |
| dc.affiliation.institute | Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät | de |
| dc.description.embargoed | 2023-03-30 | de |
| dc.identifier.ppn | 1839964480 | |
| dc.notes.confirmationsent | Confirmation sent 2023-03-24T06:15:01 | de |