Age into race : the coronization of the old / Haim Hazan.
2023
RA644.C67 H39 2023
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Title
Age into race : the coronization of the old / Haim Hazan.
Author
Hazan, Haim, author.
ISBN
9783031406690 (electronic bk.)
3031406699 (electronic bk.)
9783031406683 (print)
3031406680
3031406699 (electronic bk.)
9783031406683 (print)
3031406680
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 98 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-40669-0 doi
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RA644.C67 H39 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1962/4144
Summary
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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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 7, 2023).
Series
International perspectives on aging ; v. 38. 2197-585X
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Table of Contents
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.
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.