Perspectives on ageing, later life and ethnicity: ageing research in ethnic minority contexts.
Perspectives on ageing, later life and ethnicity: ageing research in ethnic minority contexts.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x14001536
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发表时间：
2015-05
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2.5
通讯作者：
Norris, Meriel
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作者：
Zubair, Maria;Norris, Meriel
这份特刊广泛地关注社会老年学领域内与当前“种族”（和少数民族经验）的概念化、表述和使用有关的问题和主题。这个特殊问题的一个重要目的是探索和解决“他者”的问题，在现有的主要框架内研究那些谁是老龄化或被认为是老年人，他们的种族和种族的特殊结构的“差异”。包括在这个集合中的理论，方法和实证文件的范围提供了一些关键的见解，目前的研究议程，文化的理解和少数民族老龄化研究的经验重点的特定方面。主要重点是强调在涉及少数民族背景的老年人的研究中，民族文化同质性和“他者性”往往是如何被假定的，以及更广泛的社会不平等是如何伴随（重新）产生的，（并通过）研究本身-例如，基于狭义的研究议程和问题;研究人员维斯于年长研究参与者的假定年龄和/或种族差异;正式的道德程序和框架的运作;以及在研究问题的制定和数据解释中采用的概念和理论框架。我们在这里研究和挑战的简单化的分类和区分，往往在老年学研究的基础上，研究参与者的种族，年龄和老龄化和假设的文化差异。本文集中的论文揭示了这些概念的实际复杂性和流动性，以及各族裔群体内的文化活力和经验多样性。通过对这些问题的探索，我们解决了现有知识和理解的一些差距，并有助于围绕使用特定的种族和少数民族老龄化的概念，因为这些正在老龄化研究领域内使用的新出现的讨论。
This special issue 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. An important aim of this special issue is to explore and address 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 provide 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. We examine and challenge here 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 in this collection reveal instead the actual complexity and fluidity of these concepts as well as the cultural dynamism and diversity of experiences within ethnic groups. Through an exploration of these issues, we address some of the gaps in existing knowledge and understandings as well as contribute to the newly emerging discussions surrounding the use of particular notions of ethnicity and ethnic minority ageing as these are being employed within the field of ageing studies.