Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario)
$1,000.00
From Active to Healthy Ageing. Toward a Performativity of a Regulatory Regime
FY 2017-18
Summary
"Population aging is one of humanity's greatest triumphs. It is also one of our greatest challenges." - World Health Organization (2002)
The active and successful ageing paradigm as well as the anti-aging movement reflect the sociocultural triumphs and challenges of ageing we face today (cf. Katz, 2001/2002). However, the World Health Organization's Active Ageing Policy (2002), the national health policies of Canada as well as the provincial and the local government in this country with their Age-friendly action plans not just reflect these developments; they are also constructing a 'futurity' for ageing and around ageing populations. Therefore, it is important to understand how they construct ageing in these programs. What kind of an ageing person do they imagine? Which role does the state play? To approach these questions I will use
Butler and Foucault as a theoretical framework. I ask how the program and especially the measures through power/knowledge of institutions and discourses create ageing and ageing populations. I scrutinize the performativity of the programs.
Department
Program
Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
Location
Ontario, Canada
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
382849
Name
Windeler Malou
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada; Germany
Orgtype
Research Institution; Institution Paid
Instname2
Aging
Theme2
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Prcname2
Institute of Aging
Projecttitle
From Active to Healthy Ageing. Toward a Performativity of a Regulatory Regime
Programtype2
Undefined
Orgnameinp2
Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario)
Cihramount2
$1,000
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Travel Awards - Institute Community Support
Keyworddelim
Active Ageing; British Columbia; Butler; Foucault; Canada; Construction Of Aging; Healthy Aging; Performativity; Power/Knowledge; Role Of The State; World Health Organization
Abstract
"Population aging is one of humanity's greatest triumphs. It is also one of our greatest challenges." - World Health Organization (2002)
The active and successful ageing paradigm as well as the anti-aging movement reflect the sociocultural triumphs and challenges of ageing we face today (cf. Katz, 2001/2002). However, the World Health Organization's Active Ageing Policy (2002), the national health policies of Canada as well as the provincial and the local government in this country with their Age-friendly action plans not just reflect these developments; they are also constructing a 'futurity' for ageing and around ageing populations. Therefore, it is important to understand how they construct ageing in these programs. What kind of an ageing person do they imagine? Which role does the state play? To approach these questions I will use
Butler and Foucault as a theoretical framework. I ask how the program and especially the measures through power/knowledge of institutions and discourses create ageing and ageing populations. I scrutinize the performativity of the programs.
Competitiondate
201802
Approvedterm2
1 yr 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Windeler, Malou
Approvedterm
1 an 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
Institute of Aging~ $1,000~ $0~
