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Age Into Race: The Coronization of the Old

Age Into Race: The Coronization of the Old

Hardcover

Series: International Perspectives on Aging, Book 38

Medical ReferenceGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031406680
ISBN13: 9783031406683
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 2 2023
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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