A critical theory for the elderly: the aged body within capitalism and the care home

这项研究将探讨老年人的身体，在资本主义和养老院，经验压迫的方式。这将是一个批判理论的行为，因为它将寻求建立团结，并积极反对，压迫某一社会群体。对资本主义的批判将是对资本主义所反对的生命形式的批判;一种允许统治和压迫空间的生命形式。在本论文的研究中，我将拥抱一种“民族志敏感性”，这种敏感性“可以通过观察普通人如何讨论”某些问题和问题来丰富我们的理论”（Herzog & Zacka，2017：766）。因此，我会透过访问和焦点小组的形式，与长者对话，了解他们的生活经验。我承认，我的论文的这一要素将需要伦理批准

This research will examine the way in which the aged body, within capitalism and the care home, experiences oppression. It will be an act of critical theory because it will seek to build solidarity with, and actively oppose, oppression of a certain social group. The critique of capitalism that is built within it will be a critique of the life-form that capitalism opposes; a life-form that allows space for domination and oppression. I will embrace an 'ethnographic sensibility' that 'can enrich our theorizing by observing how ordinary people discuss' certain issues and problems (Herzog & Zacka, 2017: 766) in the research of this thesis. Therefore, I will enter into dialogue with elderly people, in the form of interviews and focus groups, to ascertain their lived experiences. I acknowledge that this element of my thesis will require ethics approval