Dr Jo Pike is the feminist ‘academic’ (i.e. parasite on taxpayers) who plans to stand against Philip Davies in Shipley in the next general election. Our thanks to a supporter for this, a link to a ‘study’ she published in 2010. It has the snappy title, ” ‘I don’t have to listen to you! You’re just a dinner lady!’: power and resistance at lunchtimes in primary schools’.” The full Abstract:
Over the last decade the school setting has emerged as a crucial site for the promotion and maintenance of children and young people’s health. Issues relating to the types of foods served in and around schools continue to dominate school health policy and occupy a central position in government attempts to avert impending public health crises expected to arise from the perceived ‘obesity pandemic’. While acknowledging the ways in which school food has become a lens employed to focus the medical gaze towards the regulation of children’s bodies, we need to be mindful of the tendency to regard these bodies as ‘docile’ and children as passive targets of school food policy. Rather, this piece seeks to problematise this view, seeking instead to develop an understanding of school dining rooms as spaces in which traditional power relationships between adults and children are contested and renegotiated. Data are drawn from an ethnographic study of four primary schools in Kingston upon Hull to explicate the contested nature of power relationships played out between teachers, lunchtime staff and pupils within the spatial and temporal boundaries of the dining room. In conclusion the argument is made that policy relating to school food is mediated by power relationships within schools. Rather than operating on static axes of power, these dynamic relationships constantly shift and are continuously renegotiated, redefined and contested.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Lovely. What exactly does it mean, though?
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It means more taxpayers’ hard-earned money goes to another feminist parasite for penning utterly useless BS.
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Apart from being utter codswallop.
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Ah, yes – codswallop. That’s what we got served up for dinner at school, if I recall correctly. Mind you, being an all boys school it all got eaten.
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Presumably they listen to the dinner-men…..or is there a flaw in my theory?
Remember folks, a vote for Jeremy enhances research in academia.
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Oooh ooh me, I know. 30 odd years in Health and Social care surrounded by such guff means I can actually translate! So she sat about in four schools at dinner time taking notes and discovered that whatever the Gov and Jamie Oliver may say about healthy eating, or what the kids learn from telly and eager teachers; the cooks and dinner ladies are in charge! Genius, who would have thought it ?
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” Over the last decade the school setting has emerged as a crucial site for the promotion and maintenance of children and young people’s health, ”
yes, due to children spending so much time at school – in breakfast clubs, school hours and after school clubs to make the working Mother’s life easier.
Nanny state has taken over.
Working Mother’s don’t have the time to cook a nutritious breakfast, walk their children to school and back or to cook a nutritious meal in the evening from scratch.
This is the real reason for the obesity epidemic in our young.
And this woman worries about power struggles between staff in the school dining room???
And the tax payer pays for such utterly pointless studies ??? Shocking.
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Also,’ Good God’ is this the quality of academic study today ?
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Pretentious? Moi?
Utter derivitive waffle, signifying nothing, masquerading as academia.
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In another paper, linked here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14733280802338114?scroll=top&needAccess=true, Jo Pike apparently takes Foucault’s ideas seriously. Oh dear.
For those who do not already know, Michel Foucault was one of the most depraved and perverted moral relativists ever to have emerged from cesspit of Cultural Marxism. His published works were enthusiastically taken up by the French literati to the extent that he did more damage than any other Frenchmen (except, of course, for the singular Jean-Paul Satre and for the contemptible Herbert Marcuse). By the time Foucault died of AIDS in 1984, the amoral attitude to sexual relations he advanced in his 3 volume door-stopper ‘L’Histoire de la sexualite’ (1976), was providing rich intellectual ballast for feminist theorists and other agents of postmodernism. Because Foucault wrote with
great intellectual fluency, to this day his slippery arguments are able
to discombobulate many unsuspecting readers who lack a rigorous grounding in philosophical
argument.
Thankfully, anyone who has studied philosophy knows very well that the works of Foucault are complete and utter nonsense. Apparently, Jo Pike thinks that we need to be taking Foucault seriously! This alone is the most enormous red flag. How this woman apparently holds an academic position is beyond me.
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Yes looking back I guess I was at Uni at the time the Cultural Marxists were sweeping in. Foucault was indeed hugely popular. The mode being “deconstruction”. Even at the time it struck me that it just read as an apologia for hedonism. Though doing Economics I had a minor in Social studies and generally thought that the enthusiasm for “qualitative research” and such deductive works as Foucault’s reflected a reluctance to use empirical research because the grasp of maths was so poor.
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I daresay you might agree that the lack of mathematical fluency is characteristic of the ‘social sciences’ in general.
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Jo Pike should really have stuck to playing the ‘Stupid Boy’ in Dad’s Army I feel….
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