ABSTRACT

This writing originates from unease with assumptions that often shape intergenerational practices and everyday encounters in the UK, for instance, assumptions about generational ‘gaps’ or ‘roles’ and the pedagogy of ‘interventions’ to promote meetings ‘between’ ages. Such interventions are usually predicated on chrono-logical notions of infant, child, youth, old age, and life stages. Haynes and Murris suggest dis-continuing age/stage-related categorisation by imagining post-age spaces and pedagogies and proposing intra-generational practice. Quinn and Blandon bring ageist ideas of the ‘human’ into question through their posthuman research on dementia and life-long learning. Thinking with such provocations, we re-visited accounts of our own intergenerational experiences, and inspired by Barad, diffractively re-turned them through a selection of readings. Responding to Mannion and Haynes and Murris we work with the concept of reciprocity understood as flowing through adult/child and human/more-than-human bodies. This shifted attention onto the intra-active happenings and ‘at-onceness’ of generational or multi-age in/en-counters. We troubled ageist discourses of deficit implicit in the notion of ‘gap-bridging’ and generated the concepts of ‘shouldness’, describing the kind of ‘forced play’ of such bridging interventions; and ‘nowing’ defying the chronos of age-based categorisation, to (re)imagine qualities of intra-generational encounters.

摘要

这篇文章源于对通常影响英国代际实践和日常遭遇的假设的不安，例如，关于代际“差距”或“角色”的假设以及促进“不同年龄”之间会议的“干预”教学法。此类干预措施通常基于婴儿、儿童、青年、老年和生命阶段的时间顺序概念。海恩斯和穆里斯建议通过想象后年龄空间和教学法并提出代内实践来停止与年龄/阶段相关的分类。奎因和布兰登通过对痴呆症和终身学习的后人类研究，对“人类”的年龄歧视观念提出了质疑。带着这样的挑衅性思考，我们重新审视了我们自己的代际经历，并受到巴拉德的启发，通过一系列读数的衍射方式将它们重新呈现出来。为了回应曼尼恩、海恩斯和穆里斯的观点，我们采用互惠的概念，理解为流经成人/儿童和人类/超人类的身体。这将注意力转移到代际或多年龄的相遇/遭遇的内部活跃事件和“一次性”上。我们对隐含在“差距桥接”概念中的赤字的年龄歧视话语进行了困扰，并产生了“应该”的概念，描述了这种桥接干预措施的“强制游戏”；“现在”挑战基于年龄的分类的时间，（重新）想象代际遭遇的品质。这将注意力转移到代际或多年龄的相遇/遭遇的内部活跃事件和“一次性”上。我们对隐含在“差距桥接”概念中的赤字的年龄歧视话语进行了困扰，并产生了“应该”的概念，描述了这种桥接干预措施的“强制游戏”；“现在”挑战基于年龄的分类的时间，（重新）想象代际遭遇的品质。这将注意力转移到代际或多年龄的相遇/遭遇的内部活跃事件和“一次性”上。我们对隐含在“差距桥接”概念中的赤字的年龄歧视话语进行了困扰，并产生了“应该”的概念，描述了这种桥接干预措施的“强制游戏”；“现在”挑战基于年龄的分类的时间，（重新）想象代际遭遇的品质。