Health and Social Care, Northumbria University, UK.
J Aging Stud. 2024 Jun;69:101225. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101225. Epub 2024 Apr 4.
Drawing on qualitative data from a study of older adults' participation in a contemporary dance group, this paper asks what can be gained from new materialist concepts of the older body, and how they can expand cultural gerontological thinking about embodiment. This paper examines the connections between the older body, movement, thoughts, words and spaces, arguing that dance demonstrates that there is a spatial dimension to embodiment. In drawing from models of materiality emerging in gerontology, this paper provides insights about the experience of age, questioning fundamental categorizations promoted in Western culture, and re-thinks agency in relation to the body and space. Emphasising the importance of the material world in the production of the social has important implications in terms of understanding the experience of ageing within an ageist society.
本文借鉴了一项关于老年人参与当代舞蹈团体的研究中的定性数据，探讨了从老年身体的新唯物主义概念中可以获得什么，以及它们如何扩展关于体现的文化老年学思维。本文考察了老年身体、运动、思想、言语和空间之间的联系，认为舞蹈表明体现具有空间维度。本文借鉴老年学中出现的物质性模型，深入了解年龄的体验，质疑西方文化中推广的基本分类，并重新思考与身体和空间相关的能动性。强调物质世界在社会产生中的重要性，对于理解在一个歧视老年人的社会中老年人的体验具有重要意义。
