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2024.05.31社工系學術講座:Honoring Civic Participation Among Older Adults from Black and Latine Communities in the U.S. and Latin America

(一)時間:2024/05/31(五)12:30-13:30

(二)地點:Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University R401 臺大社 

            會社工系館401教室

 

〔講題〕  Honoring Civic Participation Among Older Adults from Black and Latine Communities in the U.S. and Latin America

 

講者:Laurent Reyes (University of California, School of Social Welfare, Assistant Professor)

主持:Julia Shu-Huah WANG, Associate Pro. 臺大社工系 汪書華 副教授

 

講者介紹:

Laurent Reyes is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare. Dr. Reyes is committed to developing research that challenges current systems of inequality that affect historically marginalized older adults. As an activist scholar and storyteller, she leans on qualitative and visual methods to listen and elevate lifetime stories of resistance and solidarity among Latinx and Black elders to re-imagine a new framework of civic participation emerging from their lived experience. The goal of this research is to shift socio-political focus and resources towards the work and solutions that historically oppressed communities have developed to survive and thrive in the context of systemic oppression and ethnoracial persecution.

 

演講內容:

In the past 20 years, scholars, foundations, and policy makers have expressed increasing interest in supporting civic participation in later life. However, current conceptualizations of civic participation fail to accurately measure and represent the experiences of civic participation among historically marginalized older adults, partly due to poor measures that present social and political activities as exclusively separate categories and focus on formal civic participation. My work re-defines civic participation from the lens of historically ethnoracially marginalized older adults to avoid further erasure of their experiences and contributions. I present six moments of civic participation, by which we can understand and measure the experiences and contributions of Latinx and Black older adults. These movements (survival, healing, justice, liberation, joy and spirit) give insight into the context of why people act and consider the sociopolitical and cultural context of their participation. These findings have implications for the development of future theoretical frameworks and measurements of civic participation that center the experiences of minority older adults.

 

※ 注意事項:本演講以英文進行。

※ No registration required, walk-in welcome本活動不需報名,歡迎進場聆聽

※ 主辦單位:國立臺灣大學社會工作學系與臺灣韌性社會研究中心

※ 本講座由教育部玉山青年計畫(NTU-112V1018-2)贊助與國立臺灣大學臺灣韌性社會研究中心(112L900303)支持