Using a novel longitudinal qualitative approach of revisiting older men across an elongated period, this paper addresses the lack of geographical attention given to older age masculinities specifically, and the limited exploration of the temporal aspects of masculinity more generally. Situated within debates around intersectional and relational approaches to masculinity and the critical geographies of ageing, the paper utilises insights from Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to examine how older men (re)produce, organise, and improvise rhythms in using and experiencing places as they age. The paper shows how the notion of masculinities as relational is given fresh insight when considered through the lens of rhythms, offering a less dualistic framing of men than those centred on bodily capacity and that automatically present older men as subordinate, redundant, or inferior. The paper draws on in-depth, repeat, qualitative interviews across four phases in an 18-year period with 32 older men (over 65) in the UK. The analysis points to how changing rhythms as men age may be accommodated through, and subsumed within, wider rhythms of continued work, periods of busyness, and eurhythmia (accordance of rhythms) with those around them. Conversely, aspects of arrhythmia (dissonance or conflict of rhythms) that have previously been pointed to as marginalising may also offer older men a level of distinction – allowing, for example, a distancing from age-graded spaces and prevalent discourses of older age as well as enabling socially dominant masculine positions compared to others at the local level. The paper also points to how masculinities are not only relational to other people and places but also to natural and non-human rhythms and daily and seasonal contingencies as well as across time.

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在他们生命的秋天：探索老年男性气质的地域和节奏

本文使用一种新颖的纵向定性方法，在较长时期内重新审视老年男性，解决了缺乏对老年男性气质的地理关注的问题，以及更普遍地对男性气质的时间方面的有限探索。在围绕男性气质的交叉和关系方法以及老龄化的关键地理的辩论中，本文利用 Lefebvre 节奏分析的见解来研究老年男性如何（重新）生产、组织和即兴创作节奏，以使用和体验地方随着年龄的增长。这篇论文展示了从节奏的角度考虑时，男性气质作为关系的概念如何获得新的见解，与那些以身体能力为中心的男性相比，男性的二元性框架更少，并且自动将年长的男性视为从属，多余的，或劣等的。该论文对英国 32 名年长男性（65 岁以上）在 18 年期间的四个阶段进行了深入、重复、定性的访谈。分析指出，随着男性年龄的增长，不断变化的节奏如何可以通过更广泛的持续工作节奏、忙碌时期以及与周围人的心律失常（节奏的一致性）来适应并包含在其中。相反，以前被指出为边缘化的心律失常（不和谐或节奏冲突）方面也可能为老年男性提供一定程度的区别——例如，允许与年龄分级空间和老年流行话语保持距离与地方层面的其他人相比，使社会主导的男性地位成为可能。