Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks

Chaouni, Saloua Berdai; Claeys, Ann; Broeke, Jennifer van den; Donder, Liesbeth De

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100909

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“…In this sense, research may play a vital role in disrupting the cultural hegemony embedded in "active aging" (Brooks-Cleator & Lewis, 2020; Ryan et al, 2020). Moreover, researchers should commit "epistemic disobedience" by questioning the colonial, capitalistic, Eurocentric approaches in research as argued by Mignolo (2009) andBerdai Chaouni, Claeys, van den Broeke, andDe Donder (2021).…”

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Cisan and Malahang: Indigenous Older Adults’ Voices on Active Aging – Findings from a Qualitative Study in Taiwan

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Munkejord

2023

Can. J. Aging

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The Taiwan Government follows the policy of active aging to prevent frailty. However, the current services lack cultural safety toward the Indigenous peoples and would benefit from a broader perspective on what active aging may entail. In this research, we study local perceptions of active aging among older Indigenous Tayal taking part in a local day club. The study identifies two formal activities that foster active aging: (a) information meetings about health and illness and (b) physical activities. In addition, two informal activities highlighted by the participants themselves were identified as necessary for promoting healthy and active aging: Cisan and Malahang. While Cisan means “social care,” Malahang means “interrelational care practices.” In conclusion, we argue for the relevance of listening to Indigenous older adults’ voices to develop long-term care services adapted to their cultural values, linguistic competence, and cosmology.

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Cisan and Malahang: Indigenous Older Adults’ Voices on Active Aging – Findings from a Qualitative Study in Taiwan

Silan

Munkejord

2023

Can. J. Aging

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“…This "shared experience of dispossession, discrimination, exploitation and marginalization precipitated through the colonial projects" (Gray et al 2013, p. 5) impacts people's wholistic perspective. Colonial thinking is also deeply embedded in gerontology (Berdai Chaouni et al 2021). For example, many studies have recorded the multilayered concept of aging (Timonen 2008;Degnen, 2012) and care (Tronto and Fisher, 1990;Harding 2014;Vaara et al 2016).…”

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Decolonization of care through a wholistic way of living: Gaga from the Tayal in Taiwan

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Chen

Lai

2022

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This article explores the “wholistic” as a central concept of “the good life” as expressed by the Bnkis, Tayal Indigenous Elders, who participated in the Day Club, Tayal territory of Northern Taiwan. In particular, we analyze the stories of care experienced by the Bnkis from the standpoint of wholistic relationships. The stories were recorded primarily between 2015 and 2018. In this analysis we used a critical qualitative design approach, privileging Tayal epistemology and informed by Tayal hermeneutics. Our results show that the concept of well-being for the Bnkis is closely linked to their relationships with people and with the land and spirituality. Through these relationships, the continuation of Gaga—Tayal law and cosmology—has been adapted organically over time. We argue that Gaga is central to Tayal Elder/Bnkis care and essential to Bnkis’ well-being. We propose that the concept of wholistic relationships embedded in the Tayal law of Gaga is vital in developing an elderly care system that is genuinely culturally relevant in the long run. This research demonstrates how the wholistic concept can improve human health and well-being, and ultimately provides an implication to sustainable development.

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“…gender, class, age, ethnicity, sexuality). 2,3 To strengthen qualitative palliative care research in culturally and ethnically diverse societies, we suggest researchers use descriptors of diversity based on participants' self-identification rather than externally assigned categories. Use of objectifiable pre-defined categories (e.g.…”

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“…who creates which societal categories and why). 3 Finally, we encourage reflection on the suitability of the predominant approach to studying cultural diversity in palliative care research that is, investigating minority populations' experiences solely within the context of that minority status. Perhaps the primary strategy should be to strive for better representation of diverse populations in all of palliative care research, thus allowing simultaneous exploration of differences and similarities based on diversity in a range of societal descriptors and identifications.…”

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The problems of using migration background as a conceptual framework in palliative care research

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Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks

Cited by 10 publications

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Cisan and Malahang: Indigenous Older Adults’ Voices on Active Aging – Findings from a Qualitative Study in Taiwan

Cisan and Malahang: Indigenous Older Adults’ Voices on Active Aging – Findings from a Qualitative Study in Taiwan

Decolonization of care through a wholistic way of living: Gaga from the Tayal in Taiwan

The problems of using migration background as a conceptual framework in palliative care research

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