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Abstract

The body embodies a highly competitive capitalist system, and in it the categories of youth and old age appear as relational, since it has chosen to reproduce hegemonic westernized visions of a young body as a machine of goods, beauty, health and life, where old bodies have been subjected to a position of decline, lethargy and even death. Based on a phenomenological-hermeutical study focused on narratives, we propose to visualize old bodies in Chiapas’ semi-urban contexts that destabilize the borders of what “ought to be”, bodies that break in and resignify, from the categories of work and sexuality, demonstrating that the advanced age is a sociocultural construction that goes beyond a biological reductionist look and short impositions