Embodying positive aging and neoliberal rationality: Talking about the aging body within narratives of retirement
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Within contemporary Western contexts, positive aging discourses are a key aspect of structured mandates for how to think about and act toward aging bodies. This study adds to previous work on embodiment that has situated how aging bodies are managed by focusing on the body as an aspect of retirement preparation, and critically considering how the imperative to govern the aging body in ways consistent with being a 'good' neoliberal citizen circulated through positive aging discourses is negotiated by aging individuals. Utilizing narrative data from a study addressing the discursive re-shaping and narrative negotiation of retirement within the Canadian context conducted with 30 informants aged 45 to 83, this paper draws upon a governmentality perspective to critically analyze ways informants talked about their aging bodies as part of preparing for and moving into retirement. Overall, the findings illustrate how informants embodied positive aging discourses and, in turn, embodied neoliberal rationality particularly in taking up the call to attend to the body as part of the broadening of retirement planning within a neoliberal context in which health, social, financial and other responsibilities are increasingly shifted toward individuals. Although informants described realizing some of the promises offered up with positive aging discourses, such as a sense of youthfulness and bodily control, their narratives also point to detrimental individual and social implications that can arise out of the limits of bodily practices, the need for perpetual risk management, an aversion to oldness, and attributions of failure. As such, this study raises concerns about the implications of the intersections of positive aging discourses and the neoliberal agenda of activation, responsibilization and individualization.
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Age performances are propelled in contemporary Western contexts by a neoliberal rationality demanding individuals' body management as the key to reducing all later life risks.
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Morley, C., Ablett, P., & Macfarlane, S. (2019) · Engaging with Social Work · doi:10.1017/9781108681094.001
Morley, C., Ablett, P., & Macfarlane, S. (2019) · Engaging with Social Work · doi:10.1017/9781108681094.013
Morley, C., Ablett, P., & Macfarlane, S. (2019) · Engaging with Social Work · doi:10.1017/9781108681094.014
- Authors
- Laliberte Rudman, D.
- Venue
- Journal of Aging Studies
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-08
- Volume
- 34
- Pages
- 10-20
- ISSN
- 0890-4065 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2011807993
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 31.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Aging Studies (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Keywords
- positive aging, neoliberal rationality, embodiment, aging body, retirement, retirement planning, governmentality, neoliberalism, responsibilization, individualization, risk management, youthfulness, body control, Canadian older adults
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Attitude to Health, Body Image, Canada, Female, Humans, Individuality, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Retirement, Social Responsibility, Health Behavior, Narration, Risk Reduction Behavior, Ageism
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