Lupton Deborah
Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, Goodsell Building, UNSW Sydney, Kensington 2052, Australia.
J Aging Stud. 2024 Dec;71:101278. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101278. Epub 2024 Oct 22.
Engaging with the special issue's theme of 'The growing older of humans, non-humans and more-than-humans', this commentary provides an overview of how social theory has engaged with the ageing body. Beginning with discussion of initial scholarship in the sociology of the body, the commentary provides thoughts on how more-than-human theory, both 'old' and 'new' materialisms, can contribute to a deeper understanding of how human bodies age alongside nonhuman living things, situated in place and space. This approach acknowledges the distributed forces, agencies and capacities that are generated with and through the relational encounters of humans with nonhuman agents as they move through the life course. The commentary ends with some suggestions for incorporating a 'gerontology of everything' perspective into ageing studies as a step towards more-than-human mutual flourishing.
本文探讨了“人类、非人类和超人类的老龄化”这一特刊主题，概述了社会理论如何关注老龄化的身体。本文从对身体社会学最初研究的讨论开始，思考了新旧唯物主义的超人类理论如何有助于更深入地理解人类身体与非生命生物一起在特定地点和空间衰老的过程。这种方法承认了在人类与非人类主体的关系相遇过程中，通过与这些关系的相互作用而产生的分布式力量、机构和能力。本文最后提出了一些建议，即将“万物老年学”的观点纳入到老年学研究中，作为迈向超人类共同繁荣的一步。
