Old Age was cancelled
framing the Third Age in the logic of the Cancel Culture
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https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2605Keywords:
Active Ageing, Moralities, Social Media, Cancel CultureAbstract
This ethnography proposes a parallel between the Cancel Culture and the mechanisms of social comparison, surveillance and exclusion observed among a group of older adults in a middle-class neighbourhood in São Paulo. Social networks enable participants to protect their status as third-agers as they can perform active ageing and produce proof of health and productivity following the autonomy constructed as morally desirable in old age. At the same time, this performance allows them to hide body declines and signs of dependence and idleness, which could promote their cancellation on the Third Age and their reclassification as fourth-agers.
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