Material Gerontology

随着物质的转向，社会科学和人文科学进入了一个新的视角--这种视角不仅强调人类，而且强调非人类行为者如何参与现实的社会建设(参见。例如，巴拉德2003年；拉图尔2005年)。然而，这种新的唯物主义观点还没有扩展到年龄和老龄化的研究中。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年龄概念，以弥合这一理论鸿沟。这一概念涉及如何在整个老年人的日常生活中通过社会实践以及人与非人类行为者之间的互动、物质和话语来构建和‘完成’复杂的社会现象老龄化和老龄化进程(参看)。Höppner/Urban 2018)。有了这一点，该网络旨在进一步发展这两种社会学老年学理论。为了从新的唯物主义观点对年龄和老龄化进行理论化，该网络将a)与不同的实质性概念接触，以形成对它的联合的、特定于年龄的理解。在此基础上，该网络将侧重于四个相关主题，即b)老龄做法(ING)，c)衰老的身体，d)老龄事物(ING)和e)老龄的空间方面(ING)。这些专题将分别在四个讲习班上讨论，并在最后一次网络会议上进行批判性思考(F)。主要成果--除了期刊论文、书籍章节和联合研讨会--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。

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.