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Growing old and resistance
— towards a new cultural economy of old age? | | Author(s) | Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 19, part 3, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp 281-299 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Sociology, Social Science ; Theory. |
| Annotation | This paper investigates the modalities of the government of older people in contemporary society by critically examining current social gerontological discourse, the claims to truth it makes about the experience of growing and being old, and its impact on the cultural economy of old age. The impact of structural processes on the experience of old age has been highlighted. Dominant discursive practices in relation, for example, to the care of older people have been deconstructed, and spaces of resistance identified. At the same time, social gerontology has turned its attention to positive or successful ageing and its payback for individual older people and policy-makers. However, because it is embedded in a broader discourse giving primacy to lifestyles, social and economic opportunities and moral responsibility, successful ageing is an ambiguity caught between resisting the mask of ageing and reaffirming the continued cultural repression of the declining body and the ageing self. Recent findings from an ongoing life history project involving older people who have moved to "age-appropriate" housing will be used to illustrate the extent to which people who are now old have appropriated new forms of regulation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990809003 A |
| Classmark | BG: S: 4D |
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