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Age into Race : The Coronization of the Old / / by Haim Hazan



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Autore: Hazan Haim Visualizza persona
Titolo: Age into Race : The Coronization of the Old / / by Haim Hazan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
Edizione: 1st ed. 2023.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (103 pages)
Disciplina: 362.1962414
Soggetto topico: Psychology
Clinical health psychology
Age distribution (Demography)
Gerontology
Behavioral Sciences and Psychology
Health Psychology
Aging Population
Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-
Persones grans
Antropologia social
Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Age into race  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-031-40669-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: International Perspectives on Aging, . 2197-585X ; ; 38