ABSTRACT
Critical Gerontology has emerged as a distinctive voice and analytic framework for challenging power and injustice in an aging society. Critical Gerontologists ask troublesome questions about ideology, control, and the ways in which knowledge is constructed (and by whom). Above all, they have called for a deeper approach to theory-work and praxis around the wild, emergent, and complex phenomena of adult aging, especially as we travel into the farthest reaches of the life course. In this essay—a conversation—our intent is to investigate some of those troublesome questions that are essential to ask so that we might foster the flourishing of Critical Gerontology—and the flourishing of Critical Gerontologists as they grow older.
