04573nam 22006975 450 991074368520332120240123180243.03-031-40669-910.1007/978-3-031-40669-0(MiAaPQ)EBC30727041(Au-PeEL)EBL30727041(DE-He213)978-3-031-40669-0(EXLCZ)992814136080004120230901d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAge into Race[electronic resource] The Coronization of the Old /by Haim Hazan1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (103 pages)International Perspectives on Aging,2197-585X ;38Print version: Hazan, Haim Age into Race Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031406683 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1. Introduction: From Ageism to Racism -- Chapter 2. On the Cultural Origins of Ageism -- Chapter 3. Public Health Covid-19 Measures Targeting Older People as a Risk Group -- Chapter 4. Covid-19 and Older People: A Global Discourse of Stigmatization -- Chapter 5. Unmasked: Remarks on the Coronization of Culture.Age into Race is a socio-anthropological essay on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural status of the old. As the worldwide horrors of the Corona era have since been publicly repressed, the text is geared to revisit and relive the tenor of that time while considering its latent revolutionary aftermath. There was wide agreement that Covid-19 policies targeted older people as a risk group in need of protection, setting it apart from the rest of society. Yet, paradoxically, long-term facilities for older people effectively became Covid-19 death traps. What kind of abandonment propelled this apparent contradiction? This book provides an answer by looking at ageist practices regarding Covid-19 triaging, lockdowns and distancing that affected older people around the world, devising Covid-19 as an inevitable "problem of the elderly" and, by implication, instating and categorizing "the elderly" as a public problem to be bio-politically managed and wrought. The Covid-19 pandemic and its concomitant "state of emergency" triggered an accelerated transmutation of customary ageism into emergent racism, spelling a fatal switch to designating the old as bearers of "bare" life unworthy of human living, thus turning old age from a seemingly cultural category to a socially fabricated viral menace of nature. The book tracks down the process through which the "Coronization" of culture legitimized and impelled a further stigmatization of old age beyond mere ageism to sheer racism. Thus, this transmutation, while compromising their autonomy and subjectivity via imposed lockdowns, social isolation, excommunication and selective discrimination rendered the old a race apart. Subsequently, the moral panic invoked by the specter of the pandemic transformed the social perceptions of later life from a containable social problem to an unbridled public hazard that summoned total measures presented as bureaucratically regimented regulations that dehumanized its victims with impunity.International Perspectives on Aging,2197-585X ;38PsychologyClinical health psychologyAge distribution (Demography)GerontologyBehavioral Sciences and PsychologyHealth PsychologyAging PopulationGerontologyPandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-thubPersones gransthubAntropologia socialthubLlibres electrònicsthubPsychology.Clinical health psychology.Age distribution (Demography).Gerontology.Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.Health Psychology.Aging Population.Gerontology.Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-Persones gransAntropologia social362.1962414Hazan Haim1087535MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910743685203321Age into race3560149UNINA