Twigg Julia, Martin Wendy
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK.
Gerontologist. 2015 Jun;55(3):353-9. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu061. Epub 2014 Jun 28.
Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider Cultural Turn, it has expanded the field of gerontology beyond all recognition. No longer confined to frailty, or the dominance of medical and social welfare perspectives, cultural gerontology addresses the nature and experience of later years in the widest sense. In this review, we will explore how the Cultural Turn, which occurred across the social sciences and humanities in the late 20th century, came to influence age studies. We will analyze the impulses that led to the emergence of the field and the forces that have inhibited or delayed its development. We will explore how cultural gerontology has recast aging studies, widening its theoretical and substantive scope, taking it into new territory intellectually and politically, presenting this in terms of 4 broad themes that characterize the work: subjectivity and identity; the body and embodiment; representation and the visual; and time and space. Finally, we will briefly address whether there are problems in the approach.
在过去十年中，文化老年学已成为关于老年研究中最具活力的领域之一（特威格，J.，& 马丁，W.（编）（2015年）。《文化老年学劳特利奇手册》。伦敦：劳特利奇）。反映了更广泛的文化转向，它极大地拓展了老年学领域。文化老年学不再局限于虚弱问题，也不再受医学和社会福利视角的主导，而是从最广泛的意义上探讨晚年生活的本质和体验。在本综述中，我们将探讨20世纪后期发生在社会科学和人文学科的文化转向如何影响老年研究。我们将分析促使该领域出现的动力以及抑制或延缓其发展的因素。我们将探讨文化老年学如何重塑了衰老研究，拓宽了其理论和实质范围，在知识和政治层面将其带入新领域，并从表征该领域工作的4个广泛主题来阐述：主体性与身份认同；身体与体现；表征与视觉；以及时间与空间。最后，我们将简要探讨该方法是否存在问题。
