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Perspectives on ageing, later life and ethnicity
— ageing research in ethnic minority contexts | | Author(s) | Maria Zubair, Meriel Norris |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 5, May 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, May 2015 |
| Pages | pp 897-916 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Ageing process ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | This special issue of Ageing and Society focuses broadly upon questions and themes relating to the current conceptualisations, representations and use of 'ethnicity' (and ethnic minority experiences) within the field of social gerontology. Among its aims is to explore the issue of 'otherness' within the predominant existing frameworks for researching those who are ageing or considered aged, compounded by the particular constructions of their ethnicity and ethnic 'difference'. The range of theoretical, methodological and empirical papers included in this collection provides some critical insights into particular facets of the current research agendas, cultural understandings and empirical focus of ethnic minority ageing research. The main emphasis is on highlighting the ways in which ethnic cultural homogeneity and 'otherness' is often assumed in research involving older people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and how wider societal inequalities are concomitantly (re)produced, within (and through) research itself - for example, based on narrowly defined research agendas and questions; the assumed age and/or ethnic differences of researchers vis-à-vis their older research participants; the workings of the formalised ethical procedures and frameworks; and the conceptual and theoretical frameworks employed in the formulation of research questions and interpretation of data. The papers examine and challenge the simplistic categorisations and distinctions often made in gerontological research based around research participants' ethnicity, age and ageing and assumed cultural differences. The papers presented reveal instead the actual complexity and fluidity of these concepts, as well as the cultural dynamism and diversity of experiences within ethnic groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626001 A |
| Classmark | TK: BG: 3A:6KC |
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