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：35-54
出版社：Linkoping University Electronic Press
摘要：This article discusses the existing and developing aging regimes in theNorthern and Southern rim countries of the whole Mediterranean regionwhich are all undergoing considerable social and political transformationprocesses. It is argued that several eye-opening theoretical interventionsfor such a gerontological project may lead to some methodologicalproblems and pitfalls, which have to be dealt with productively. Centralcollective concepts of such an analysis (as the change-oriented ‘‘modernizationeffects’’ of societal aging and the continuity-oriented gaze at the‘‘unity of the region’’) have to be reconsidered and ought to be moredifferentiated in order to allow smaller social entities (such as kinship andcommunity systems and their connectivity) to be central orientations foranalyzing poverty and care management in old age in the Mediterraneanregion. How to reconnect such a rather micro-political agenda with largeprocesses and big structures of aging policies in the region however stillremains an open question.
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