Age into Race

The Coronization of the Old

Haim Hazan

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Springer International Publishing AG
02 September 2023

Age groups; Age groups: the elderly; Population & demography; Psychology; Health psychology

Series: International Perspectives on Aging

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.

By: Haim Hazan
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2023 ed.
Volume: 38
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9783031406683
ISBN 10: 3031406680
Series: International Perspectives on Aging
Pages: 98
Publication Date: 02 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Haim Hazan is a social anthropologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University currently serving as a co-director of The Minerva Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. His academic work focuses mainly on old age and the life course. He is the author of numerous articles and books among which are : The Limbo People : A study of the Constitution of the Time Universe Among the Aged (Routledge 1980/2023); Managing Change in Old Age : The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting (Sate University of New York Press 1992); Old Age : Constructions and Deconstructions (Cambridge University Press 1994); From First Principles: An Experiment in Aging (Praeger 1996); Against Hybridity : Social Impasses in a Globalizing World (Polity 2015); Twilight Nationalism : Politics of Existence at Life's End (co-authored with Daniel Monterescu) ( Stanford University Press 2018); Suicide Social Dramas : Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli public Sphere (coauthored with Raquel Romberg ) (Routledge 2022).

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