Vina Adriany, Marek Tesar
This paper interrogates the discourses of stunting in Indonesia and its links to early childhood education. Here, stunting is analysed via Foucault's work, with data stemming from a long-term ethnography study and analysis of relevant policy documents in Indonesia. We argue the discourses of stunting have been regulating children, teachers and parents by acting as a form of biopower of governing rationalities. Focusing merely on the individual and nutrition aspects, the discourses overlook larger societal problems. In such a space, the children, teachers and parents become a site of the state's surveillance and are produced as docile bodies. © 2022 National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia; Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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