Surfing through the life-course: silver surfers' negotiation of ageing
Surfing through the life-course: silver surfers' negotiation of ageing
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生命历程中的冲浪：银发冲浪者的衰老谈判
DOI：
10.1080/11745398.2016.1167610
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.9
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Wheaton B
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Wheaton B
冲浪的形象往往反映了消费文化对年轻的迷恋，同时也延续了一个神话，即参与者是鲁莽的、追求风险的享乐主义者。然而，随着越来越多的老年男性和女性冲浪者下水，这种形象正在受到挑战。借鉴在英国进行的实证研究，我探索的意义，休闲冲浪在参与者的生活和身份，因为他们长大。这项研究采访了英国的男性和女性休闲冲浪者，从“中年”到媒体称之为“银冲浪者”。我调查了终身冲浪者和那些在中年时开始冲浪的人。虽然衰老通常被概念化为认知和身体衰退的一个阶段，但娱乐性冲浪正被用作“中年”延伸和应对衰老焦虑过程中的身份资源[Tulle 2008. Ageing，the Body and Social Change：Running in Later Life.贝辛斯托克：帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦]。本文强调了老年冲浪者的繁殖方式，并挑战了关于衰老，身体活动和体现的主导话语，以及他们如何设想自己的体育未来，通过冲浪来谈判衰老。最后，它提出了对老有所事政策议程的一些影响。
Images of surfing have tended to reflect consumer culture’s fascination with youthfulness, simultaneously perpetuating a myth that participants are reckless, male risk-seeking hedonists. This image, however, is being challenged with increasing numbers of older male and female surfers taking to the water. Drawing on empirical research conducted in the UK, I explore the meanings that recreational surfing plays in participants’ lives and identities as they grow older. The research involved interviews with male and female British recreational surfers from ‘middle-age’ through to what the media have dubbed ‘silver surfers’. I examine both life-long surfers and those who have taken to surfing in mid-life. While ageing is often conceptualized as a phase of cognitive and physical decline, recreational surfing is being used as an identity resource in the extension of ‘mid-life’ and in the process of negotiating anxieties about ageing [Tulle 2008.Ageing, the Body and Social Change: Running in Later Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan]. The paper highlights ways in which older surfers reproduce, and challenge dominant discourses about ageing, physical activity and embodiment, and how they envisage their sporting futures, negotiating ageing though surfing. Lastly, it draws out some of the implications for active ageing policy agendas.