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

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.