Biopolitical paradigms are frameworks that specify how concerns about health and the body are made the simultaneous focus of biomedicine and state policy (Foucault 1984; Rose 2007). As aging and urbanization trends converge, developing “age-friendly community initiatives” (AFCIs) has become a global movement and important policy area. To prompt critical questioning, situational analysis was used as a theory-methods package to compare AFCI conceptual frames with perspectives of thirteen AFCI experts and seventeen older San Franciscans. Preliminary analysis suggests AFCIs form a biopolitical paradigm because they not only seek to rework boundaries between bodies and environments, they operate as modes of individual and population governance for the sake of health; yet, struggle to find ways to preserve the inclusion of older people in the ongoing social system. Understanding how AFCIs place social and physical environments squarely in view within the biomedical arena of the gerontological gaze has theoretical and policy implications.
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机译:生物党的范式是框架,具体说明对健康和身体的担忧是如何同时对生物医学和国家政策的焦点(Foucault 1984; Rose 2007)。随着老龄化和城市化趋势融合,发展“年龄友好的社区倡议”(AFCIS)已成为全球运动和重要的政策领域。为了提示关键质疑,情况分析被用作理论方法包,以将AFCI概念帧与十三余余专家和17名旧版旧遗传学的角度进行比较。初步分析表明AFCIS形成了一个生物批判范式,因为它们不仅寻求返工机构和环境之间的界限,它们是为了健康而作为个人和人口治理的模式运作;然而,努力寻找能够在正在进行的社会系统中纳入老年人的方法。了解AFCIS如何在地形凝视的生物医学舞台上正视社交和物理环境,具有理论和政策影响。
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