The aging illogical body: Multiple responses to the passage of time

Authors

  • Monique Borba Cerqueira Pesquisadora Científica do Instituto de Saúde (SES/SP); Pós-Doutorado em Ciências Sociais (PUC-SP); Doutorado em Políticas Sociais e Movimentos Sociais (Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Serviço Social, PUC-SP; Mestrado em Sociologia (UNICAMP).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2020v23i2p127-144

Keywords:

Ways of aging, Diversity, Body, Health, Aging.

Abstract

Prudence and vigilance mark the accelerated phenomenon of population aging, which demonstrates an international concern in the field of health, politics, and economics. Aging starts justifying the redefinition of policies and programs that aim to transform the global profile of old age. New political modes for the management of the elderly population are emerging. Aging is now conceived in accordance with strict normative standards. The biological view of aging predominates. Old age becomes the subject of a number of practices that are linked to medical discourse, from healthy aging to quality of life and old age. The illogical aging body refers to the understanding that, despite all social frames, growing old can become a transgressive process, by challenging aesthetic standards and the cultural and political modeling. The illogical, unexpected, insurgent can be an affirmative and sensitive component of the life of those who age.

Author Biography

Monique Borba Cerqueira, Pesquisadora Científica do Instituto de Saúde (SES/SP); Pós-Doutorado em Ciências Sociais (PUC-SP); Doutorado em Políticas Sociais e Movimentos Sociais (Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Serviço Social, PUC-SP; Mestrado em Sociologia (UNICAMP).

Pesquisadora Científica do Instituto de Saúde (SES/SP); Pós-Doutorado em Ciências Sociais (PUC-SP); Doutorado em Políticas Sociais e Movimentos Sociais (Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Serviço Social, PUC-SP; Mestrado em Sociologia (UNICAMP). 

 

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Published

2020-06-30

How to Cite

Cerqueira, M. B. (2020). The aging illogical body: Multiple responses to the passage of time. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 23(2), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2020v23i2p127-144

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Papers

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