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Age into Race - The Coronization of the Old (1st ed. 2023)
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Age into Race - The Coronization of the Old (1st ed. 2023)
Series: International Perspectives on Aging, 38
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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.
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Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
International Perspectives on Aging, 38 |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Haim Hazan
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
150 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-140668-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
3-03-140668-0 |
Barcode: |
9783031406683 |
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