Temporal Vertigo: The Paradoxes of Ageing

Segal, Lynne

doi:10.1080/15240657.2014.939022

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“…For Gavin scheduling had a deeper meaning as he was aware of an urgency to fit in as much skateboarding as possible before it gets 'too late'. As he got older time seemed to be speeding up and he experienced what can be referred to as temporal vertigo (Segal, 2014). Part of his concern is that the body will not be able to keep up with the demands of skateboarding in later life.…”

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“…Wheaton frames her discussion on older surfers with reference to the paradigm of active ageing, highlighting how toned and supple older bodies resist the notion that ageing is problematic and unsightly (2016). The active ageing agenda is suggested to be, in part, a neoliberal exercise in the self-management of old age (Pike, 2011; Segal, 2014: 215), but it is also a reflection of the greying global population and changes in lifestyle trajectories. One result of these changes is the growth in participation of middle-aged and senior-aged individuals in various competitive sports (Tulle, 2008) and increasingly lifestyle sports.…”

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“…I found older skateboarders to be mindful that they would one day not be able to skateboard. Finite time gives them a sense of what Segal (2014) refers to as ‘temporal vertigo’. Time is also a commodity to manage and these adults, often in committed relationships, with careers and sometimes children, schedule their time to ‘fit in’ skateboarding.…”

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Beyond the youth culture: Understanding middle-aged skateboarders through temporal capital

O’Connor¹

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Responding to the call of Wheaton to discuss the position of older participants in lifestyle sports, this research presents an analysis of the experiences of middle-aged skateboarders. Through qualitative interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis of skateboard media, skateboarding is revealed to be an integral part of the biographies and identities of middle-aged skateboarders. These accounts challenge the imaging of skateboarding as a youth culture and indicate that age and time have an important currency to skateboarders. The value of age is not confined to middle-aged skateboarders but is also observable in skateboard media which corresponds with the values held more broadly in skateboard culture. The concept of temporal capital is proposed as a way to make sense of the experiences of middle-aged skateboarders, highlighting how time is at once a path to subcultural authenticity, but also a resource to be managed and scheduled for their continued engagement in skateboarding.

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2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Lynne Segal has demonstrated how fictional narratives of ageing heterosexual men were marked primarily by concerns about declining sexual potency and the 'increasingly unrealizable' life of desire, both of which were key motifs in late twentieth-century representations of the male midlife crisis. 49 In some women's writings, by contrast, ageing was expressed in more positive tones: for post-war feminist writers such as Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, who were challenging inequalities within the family as well as addressing social and occupational discrimination, the passing of youthful sexual passion allowed women to be 'free at last'. 50 Yet, as Segal shows, this dichotomy between male and female perceptions of shifting sexuality across the life course is overly simplistic.…”

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2019 Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar lectureLife begins at 40: the demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis

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2020

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In 1965, the psychoanalyst and social scientist Elliott Jaques introduced a term, the ‘midlife crisis’, that continues to structure Western understandings and experiences of middle age. Following Jaques's work, the midlife crisis became a popular means of describing how—and why—men and women around the age of 40 became disillusioned with work, disenchanted with relationships and detached from family responsibilities. Post-war sociological and psychological studies of middle age regarded the midlife crisis as a manifestation of either biological or psychological change, as a moment in the life course when—perhaps for the first time—people felt themselves to be declining towards death. Although the midlife crisis has often been dismissed as a myth or satirized in novels and films, the concept has persisted not only in stereotypical depictions of rebellion and infidelity at midlife, but also in research that has sought to explain the particular social, physical and emotional challenges of middle age. In the spirit of the pioneering research of John Wilkins, John Bernal and Peter Medawar, each of whom in different ways emphasized the complex interrelations between science and society, I want to argue that the emergence of the midlife crisis—as concept and experience—during the middle decades of the twentieth century was not coincidental. Rather it was the product of historically specific demographic changes and political aspirations—at least in the Western world—to keep alive the American dream of economic progress and material prosperity.

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“…Although notions of decline have dominated socio-cultural understandings of ageing in the west for a long time (Segal, 2014;Wilson, 2000), the rising numbers of older people and the discovery of their potential on the consumer market, combined with the accelerating significance of neoliberal values has facilitated the emergence of another powerful frame for the construction of ageing. The successful ageing paradigm is a much more positively connoted concept than the prior understanding of ageing as merely being a time of natural demise preceding death.…”

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The Social Construction of Ageing Masculinities in Neoliberal Society – Reflections on Retired German Men.

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Low fertility rates, advances in medicine and improved living standards have dramatically altered the worldwide demographic landscape of age and ageing. The world’s population is growing older, and as a result of this demographic trend, scholarly research in a variety of academic disciplines in the West have turned their focus towards socio-cultural understandings of old age. Research-based in cultural gerontology suggests that within the context of western neoliberal societies perceptions of older age mainly unfold within two hegemonic narratives, namely ageing as related to decline, frailty and dependency and successful ageing characterised by youthfulness, productivity and continued personal autonomy. Since recent multi-disciplinary approaches to age presume that western views of ageing are shaped by the socio-cultural environment and its hegemonic narratives, the role media play in the dissemination and preservation of these hegemonic narratives has been an important site of investigation, particularly in relation to the portrayal of older women. However, the media depiction of older males and related cultural narratives and how older men experience these narratives within a cultural environment other than the U.S. have received less academic attention. Paradoxically, whilst the representation of older male ageing is strikingly less in the focus of scholarly debate than female ageing, the action film genre has recently brought older male characters into focus through the revival of tough-guy action films featuring older male protagonists. This thesis analyses three ‘geri-action films’, The Expendables, The Expendables 2 and The Expendables 3, in order to explore current representational contextualisations of masculine ageing within the hegemonic socio-cultural constructions of successful ageing and ageing as decline. In so doing, it furthers an understanding of the dominant socio-cultural frames of reference which influence older men’s constructions of older male identities. Subsequently, this thesis explores the ways that ageing impacts on the later lives of men who would have been judged during their working lives to fulfil the criteria of hegemonic masculinity in that they are heterosexual, white and were, before retirement, in white-collar, affluent, middle- and upper-managerial positions. The in-depth semi-structured interviews with four retired German men offered genuine and novel views of older German men’s inner worlds in relation to the specificities of their life-course narratives and self-perceptions within the socio-cultural and theoretical contexts of ageing and masculinity. Through qualitative research underpinned by theoretical and conceptual understandings of media, ageing and representation, cultural gerontology and masculinity studies, this thesis offers a critical analysis of previously unheard narratives about ageing and masculinity.

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Temporal Vertigo: The Paradoxes of Ageing

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Beyond the youth culture: Understanding middle-aged skateboarders through temporal capital

Beyond the youth culture: Understanding middle-aged skateboarders through temporal capital

2019 Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar lectureLife begins at 40: the demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis

The Social Construction of Ageing Masculinities in Neoliberal Society – Reflections on Retired German Men.

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