期刊名称：International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
印刷版ISSN：1652-8670
出版年度：2015
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：21-34
出版社：Linkoping University Electronic Press
摘要：This paper is a personal account of five ‘‘eye-opening’’ career experiences inthe author’s life that illustrate how biographical events shape opportunitiesand inspire knowledge-making in critical gerontology. Borrowing fromPierre Bourdieu’s methodological concept of ‘‘fieldwork in philosophy,’’this account suggests that critical thinking only becomes meaningful in thelived contexts in which it is grounded, negotiated, transformed, and shared.Thus theoretical ideas about ageing, despite their abstract nature, havehistorical and unpredictable stories of their own that are worthy of a‘‘fieldwork’’ approach. The paper also emphasises that the ‘‘critical’’ in criticalgerontology includes a strong reflexive and self-critical dimension aboutthe subjective conditions of doing gerontological research, especially inthe face of gerontology’s claim to be an objective science
关键词：critical gerontology; biography; reflection; history of ideas.
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