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Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks
Journal of Aging Studies ( IF 2.707 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100909
Saloua Berdai Chaouni 1 , Ann Claeys 2 , Jennifer van den Broeke 3 , Liesbeth De Donder 4
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Population aging and international migration are two of the most critical social trends shaping the world today. As a result, scholars across the globe have begun to investigate how to better incorporate ethnicity into gerontological research. The integration of insights from life-course theory, post-colonial, and feminist theories have resulted in valuable attempts to tackle issues related to ethnicity and old age. Inspired by these bodies of research, this paper explores how decolonial perspectives can strengthen social gerontological research at the intersection of ethnicity and old age.

This theoretical paper advances four key insights drawn from decolonial perspectives that expose some current blind spots in gerontological research at the intersection of aging and ethnicity. Through a process of awareness and resistance decolonial perspectives reveal that: 1) colonial thinking is deeply embedded in research; 2) critical reflection about who is considered the “knower” in research is warranted; 3) alternative ways to generate, analyze, and publish knowledge exist; and 4) the places and systems of knowledge production are not neutral. To address these issues empirically, decolonial frameworks call us to actions that include decolonizing the conceptual underpinnings of the research enterprise, scholars themselves, research-in-action (through “epistemic disobedience”), and current knowledge systems and structures that reflect and reinforce colonialism. Potential applications of these insights are explored, but acknowledged as an essential first step on a nascent path.

This paper concludes by arguing that decolonial perspectives offer a more genuine gaze by demanding nuanced reflections of contemporary realities aging persons embodying the intersection of aging and ethnicity, like racialized older migrants and ethnic minorities, while simultaneously revealing how historically-rooted power hierarchies that are often invisible constrain their aging experiences.



中文翻译:

研究种族与老年的交叉点:来自非殖民化框架的关键见解

人口老龄化和国际移民是塑造当今世界的两个最关键的社会趋势。因此,世界各地的学者开始研究如何更好地将种族纳入老年学研究。生命历程理论、后殖民主义和女权主义理论的洞察力的整合导致了解决与种族和老年相关的问题的宝贵尝试。受这些研究机构的启发,本文探讨了非殖民观点如何加强种族和老年交叉点的社会老年学研究。

这篇理论论文提出了从非殖民主义角度得出的四个关键见解,这些见解揭示了当前老年学研究中老龄化和种族交叉点的一些盲点。通过一个认识和抵抗的过程,去殖民化的观点表明:1)殖民思想深深植根于研究中;2)关于谁被认为是研究中的“知识分子”的批判性反思是有必要的;3) 存在产生、分析和发布知识的替代方法;4)知识生产的场所和系统不是中立的。为了从经验上解决这些问题,去殖民化框架要求我们采取行动,包括对研究事业、学者本身、在行动中的研究(通过“认识论不服从”)的概念基础进行去殖民化,以及反映和加强殖民主义的当前知识体系和结构。探索了这些见解的潜在应用,但被认为是新生道路上必不可少的第一步。

本文的结论是,通过要求对体现老龄化和种族交叉的老年人(例如种族化的老年移民和少数民族)的当代现实进行细致入微的反思,非殖民主义观点提供了更真实的视角,同时揭示了根深蒂固的权力等级制度是如何经常出现的。无形限制了他们的老化体验。

更新日期:2020-11-28
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