Ageing of the Oppressed:A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms." Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageism is not a new phenomenon but one that has been ignored for too long by policymakers and the general population. The negative language used to describe population ageing adds fuel to the fire by filling people’s minds with ageist images that permeate all levels and sectors of society. We should all be recognized as full human rights holders, no matter our age, ability, disability, gender or sexual orientation, race, or socio-economic or any other status. This book combines theoretical models and academic essays by top experts with the real-life experience of older persons and activists. It is a must-read for advocates for human rights; policymakers; service providers; students of social and health sciences, the humanities, and law; and anybody willing to challenge assumptions and practices. The proposed UN Convention on the human rights of older persons will be a step forward to providing older persons with a remedy for daily and often life-long oppression.Silvia Perel-Levin, a highly respected international expert and leading advocate on human rights and ageing, has brought together contributors from around the world and from different disciplines to reflect on ageing, human rights, and oppression in its many forms. The book offers provocative, moving, and powerful stories and analyses of marginalization in older age and the interaction of age and other forms of discrimination in the denial of human rights. The book demands of its readers that they reflect deeply on their own ageism, prejudices, and complacency. A must-have for anyone interested in ageing, human rights, law, and structures of power in our societies.—Andrew Byrnes, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaAs an eminent global advocate for the improvement of human rights of all citizens and most especially older people, Silvia Perel-Levin is well qualified to bring together leading experts in their field to convey through storytelling the manifest urgency for formal recognition and collective action against unjust treatment in all its forms. Each narrative will leave an imprint on your soul of the pain of being human yet most importantly the innate power in voice and meaningful engagement.—Jane Barratt, Secretary General, International Federation on Ageing
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Acknowledgments – Silvia Perel-Levin: Introduction: Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice – Alexandre Kalache: Growing Old Among Inequalities in Brazil – Bette Ann Moskowitz: The Cultural Cage – Adolf Ratzka: Living and Aging with Disability: A Personal Account – Michael Adams: LGBTI Elders Advancing – María Soledad Cisternas Reyes: The Intersection Between Old Age and Disability – Kate Swaffer: About Us Without All of Us: The Elephants in the Room – Liat Ayalon: Mental Health, Physical Health, Older Age, and Oppression – Claudia Mahler: Human Rights of Older Persons: Wishful Thinking or Reality? – Larraine J. Larri: "Viva La Nannalution!" Overcoming Ageist Sexism in Environmental Activism: The Australian Older Women’s Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed – Alanna Armitage: The Silver Tsunami, the Ticking Time Bomb and Other Demographic Imaginaries: Moving from Demographic Threat to Demographic Resilience – About the Authors.
Silvia Perel-Levin is an advocate for the human rights of older persons at international organizations, and as an independent consultant. She has a B.A. in Social Theater from Tel Aviv University and an M.Sc. in Inter-Professional Practice, Society, and Violence from City University London.
