DVM 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Invisibility, Gender Studies

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 4150
• Professor: nadia Abu

Document Summary

Beyond vulnerability and dependence: social age in development contexts. Younger and older people framed as vulnerable and dependent in many development texts and studies. Social age analysis to underscore unequal power relations in interdependent relationships. Need for activism on age discrimination, similar to anti-racism and anti-sexism. Socially constructed, context-specific roles and attributes ascribed to different age categories. Intersectionality with class, gender, race, religion, and other identity markers. Socially constructed aspect with roles associated to age --not necessarily chronological. Social attributes associated to what is considered an adult or a child. Compliments dominant focus on chronological age in legal frameworks and development programming. In some countries people do not know their ages. Age of majority, drinking age, driving age etc. Guidelines for what is considered a child --utilitarian view. Biological processes and/or social processes [puberty/parenthood, educational training, marriage] more important as markers of ageing. Production: work preformed for remuneration---in cash or in kind.