A SHOT OF ECONOMIC ADRENALINE - RECONSTRUCTING THE ELDERLY IN THE RETIREE-BASED ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE

Authors
Citation
G. Laws, A SHOT OF ECONOMIC ADRENALINE - RECONSTRUCTING THE ELDERLY IN THE RETIREE-BASED ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE, Journal of aging studies, 10(3), 1996, pp. 171-188
Citations number
71
Categorie Soggetti
Geiatric & Gerontology
Journal title
ISSN journal
08904065
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
171 - 188
Database
ISI
SICI code
0890-4065(1996)10:3<171:ASOEA->2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
This article considers the reconstruction of elderly identities in the retiree-based economic development literature made up of academic and popular sources. Drawing from post-structuralist theories of represen tation and the body, I ask how elderly bodies are represented and what they are used to represent in this literature. Identities are shown t o be both embodied and emplaced and the politics surrounding identity formation is shown to be spatialized. The transformations in elderly i dentities are situated within a transition between modernity and postm odernity.