Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and
Transformative Directions

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Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and Transformative Directions

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva; Petr FUČÍK; Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ; Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ; Světlana NEDVĚDOVÁ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and Transformative Directions

Autoři

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva; Petr FUČÍK; Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ; Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ; Světlana NEDVĚDOVÁ; Daniela RENDL; Karolína GREGOROVÁ; Aneta STRAKOVÁ a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ

Vydání

The Future of Masculinity Studies: Expanding Horizons, Transformative Directions and Critical Reflections. A Season of Online Events - Digital Conference 2025. 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

American Men s Studies Association Digital Conference 2025

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Štítky

ageing, changing masculinities, Czech Republic, men and masculinities

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 26. 6. 2025 12:39, doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Everyday experiences of men as they age bring about various entanglements with power and privilege as well as with powerlessness and reconsiderations of their own "doing aging and masculinity." The paper explores these themes both on individual and structural levels while critically reflecting and considering potentially transformative directions of such experiences toward more caring and less entitled practices. It is based on a qualitative sociological study (2023-2025). More than 90 face-to-face interviews were collected by a team of researchers, with men aged 24 – 78 (mostly in their 40s – 60s) in several social environments in the Czech Republic (a post-socialist country in Europe) covering a spectrum of marginalized as well as privileged status settings. Men were addressed as men in the study and ageing was framed as a social and biographical process rather than a fixed biological category. Thus, both gender and age were explicit topics and intersecting relations addressed in the interviews. Analytically, the paper draws on critical approaches to studying men and masculinities, and concentrates on the re/production of gender inequality and some challenges to practices of masculinities connected with ageing. The core question of how (Czech) ageing men do their masculinities in various settings as they age helps us re/formulate intersections of these categories both analytically as well as in practice that was collected in the narratives of ageing Czech men. The core axes of care (received and provided) and power(lessness) provide points for transformations in institutions of ageing men. This is still a work-in-progress analysis with our findings offered for peer reflection and feedback.

Návaznosti

GA23-05047S, projekt VaV

Název: Instituce stárnoucích mužů

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Instituce stárnoucích mužů

Citovat

ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva; Petr FUČÍK; Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ; Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ; Světlana NEDVĚDOVÁ; Daniela RENDL; Karolína GREGOROVÁ; Aneta STRAKOVÁ a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ. Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and Transformative Directions. In The Future of Masculinity Studies: Expanding Horizons, Transformative Directions and Critical Reflections. A Season of Online Events - Digital Conference 2025. 2025.

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   booktitle = {The Future of Masculinity Studies: Expanding Horizons, Transformative Directions and Critical Reflections. A Season of Online Events - Digital Conference 2025.},
   language = {eng},
   title = {Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and Transformative Directions},
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   year = {2025}
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N2  - Everyday experiences of men as they age bring about various entanglements with power and privilege as well as with powerlessness and reconsiderations of their own "doing aging and masculinity." The paper explores these themes both on individual and structural levels while critically reflecting and considering potentially transformative directions of such experiences toward more caring and less entitled practices. It is based on a qualitative sociological study (2023-2025). More than 90 face-to-face interviews were collected by a team of researchers, with men aged 24 – 78 (mostly in their 40s – 60s) in several social environments in the Czech Republic (a post-socialist country in Europe) covering a spectrum of marginalized as well as privileged status settings. Men were addressed as men in the study and ageing was framed as a social and biographical process rather than a fixed biological category. Thus, both gender and age were explicit topics and intersecting relations addressed in the interviews. Analytically, the paper draws on critical approaches to studying men and masculinities, and concentrates on the re/production of gender inequality and some challenges to practices of masculinities connected with ageing. The core question of how (Czech) ageing men do their masculinities in various settings as they age helps us re/formulate intersections of these categories both analytically as well as in practice that was collected in the narratives of ageing Czech men. The core axes of care (received and provided) and power(lessness) provide points for transformations in institutions of ageing men. This is still a work-in-progress analysis with our findings offered for peer reflection and feedback.
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ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva; Petr FUČÍK; Marcela PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ; Tereza MENŠÍKOVÁ; Světlana NEDVĚDOVÁ; Daniela RENDL; Karolína GREGOROVÁ; Aneta STRAKOVÁ a Lucie VIDOVI$\backslash$'COVÁ. Institutions of Ageing Czech Men: Critical Reflections and Transformative Directions. In \textit{The Future of Masculinity Studies: Expanding Horizons, Transformative Directions and Critical Reflections. A Season of Online Events - Digital Conference 2025.}. 2025.

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