Material Gerontology

材料老年学

• 批准号: 427930883
• 负责人: Dr. Anna Wanka, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sozialpädagogik und Erwachsenenbildung (WE V)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Scientific Networks
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/427930883?language=en
• 关键词: Material; Gerontology

With the material turn entered a new perspective into the social sciences and humanities – a perspective that emphasizes how not only human, but also non-human actors take part in the social construction of realities (cf. e.g. Barad 2003; Latour 2005). However, such new materialist perspectives have not yet spread across the study of age and ageing. The interdisciplinary and international research network “Material Gerontology” aims to develop a new materialist conception of age(ing) to close this theoretical gap. Such a conception is concerned with how the complex social phenomena age and ageing processes are constructed and ‘done’ in and through social practices and interactions between human and non-human actors, materialities and discourses, throughout the everyday lives of older people (cf. Höppner/Urban 2018). With this, the network aims to develop both sociological gerontological theories further. To theorize age and ageing from a new materialist perspective, the network will a) engage with different concepts of materiality to develop a joint, age-specific understanding of it. Based on this the network will focus on four related topics, namely b) practices of age(ing), c) ageing bodies, d) things of age(Ing) and e) spatial aspects of age(ing). These topics will be discussed in four respective workshops and critically reflected upon in a final network meeting (f). The main outcome – besides journal papers, book chapters and joint symposia – will be an edited volume on “Material Gerontology”, in which the developed theoretical conceptions of a material gerontology will be elaborated.

随着物质转向，社会科学和人文科学进入了一个新的视角——一个不仅强调人类，而且强调非人类行动者如何参与现实的社会建构的视角（e.g. Barad 2003; Latour 2005）。然而，这种新的唯物主义观点尚未在年龄和老龄化的研究中普及。跨学科的国际研究网络“物质老年学”旨在发展一种新的唯物主义的年龄概念，以缩小这一理论差距。这一概念关注的是，在老年人的日常生活中，复杂的社会现象年龄和老龄化过程是如何在人类和非人类行为者、物质和话语之间的社会实践和互动中构建和“完成”的（参见Höppner/Urban 2018）。因此，该网络旨在进一步发展社会学老年学理论。为了从新的唯物主义角度对年龄和老龄化进行理论化，该网络将a)与不同的物质性概念接触，以形成对它的联合的、特定年龄的理解。在此基础上，网络将重点关注四个相关主题，即b)老龄化实践，c)老龄化身体，d)老龄化事物（ing）和e)老龄化的空间方面（ing）。这些主题将在四个讲习班上讨论，并在最后一次网络会议(f)上进行批判性反思。除了期刊论文、书籍章节和联合专题讨论会之外，主要成果将是一本关于“材料老年学”的编辑卷，其中将详细阐述材料老年学的发展理论概念。