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Foucault retires to the gym
— understanding embodied aging in the third age | | Author(s) | Kristi A Allain, Barbara Marshall |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 36, no 3, September 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2017 |
| Pages | pp 402-414 |
| Source | http://cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Activities of older people ; Exercise ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Theory. |
| Annotation | In light of recent social pressures leading to a reimagining of the `Third Age' as a time of constant activity rather than repose and relaxation, this article looked at the pressure on individuals to age `successfully' by engaging in physical activity in later life. Through semi-structured interviews with 15 retired or semi-retired gym-goers (eight women and seven men), the article examined how this call to increased activity impacted the ways active mid-life and older adults understood themselves and others. Drawing on Foucault's understandings of the productive nature of power, the authors argue that those who perceive themselves as successfully heeding the call to active ageing position themselves in contrast to inactive peers. Within a neoliberal framework, these participants self-identify as morally responsible citizens who, as a result of engagement in fitness activities, are authorised to survey and discipline the bodies of those `others' who will not or cannot engage in regular exercise. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171006230 A |
| Classmark | BG: G: CEA: CC: DP: 4D |
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