| Summary: | What happens when a researcher is lad to work on an object which is supposed to match her research field, but which dodges all analytic grips? I was confronted with this very destabilizing phenomenon during my participation to a qualitative study conducted on aging prisoners. I start analyzing the interviews with my sociology of aging toolbox and I am seized by a feeling of emptiness: I am not able to catch my object, aging. What is happening? The answer to this question requires an analysis of what is not there and challenges both the sociologist and her field of research. Behind bars, aging remains socially absent.
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