Honoring Civic Participation Among Older Adults from Black and Latine Communities in the U.S. and Latin America
• Time: 12:30-13:30, Friday, May 31st, 2024
時間：2024年05月31日 (五)12:30-13:30
• Location: Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University R401
地點：臺大社會社工系館 401會議室
• Speaker: Dr. Laurent Reyes, Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
• Host: Julia Shu-Huah WANG, Associate Professor, NTUSW
主持：臺大社工系汪書華副教授
About the Speaker/ 關於講者
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.
About the Talk 關於演講
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.
※ No registration required, walk-in welcome
本活動不需報名，歡迎直接進場聆聽；講座為前十位參與者備有輕食。
注意事項：本演講以英文進行，現場無翻譯。
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
