COVID-19 and Emancipatory Gerontology: Perspectives of Political Economy and the American Rescue Plan

The present historic moment – a pandemic worsened by far-right extremism – reveals how mounting individual and collective precarity across the lifecourse and in old age resides within societal institutions of colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Contradictions between systems of democracy and capitalism construct an ageist society aligned with neoliberal ideologies attempting to dismantle and privatize Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These issues confront the call for a critical inquiry that matters in the lives of those who daily experience social injustices (Denzin, 2017). This paper presents emancipatory gerontology (Estes & DiCarlo, 2019) as a critical praxis to challenge assumptions, frameworks, and delirium writ large in American society as it relates to how we conceive of age, aging, and generations. We elucidate how the $1.9 trillion 2021 American Rescue Plan represents a paradigm shift that aims to supplant austerity economics with human, public, and community benefit. This knock on the hegemonic commitment to austerity and its mantra is an opportunity to interrogate the effects of, and advance, emancipatory policies and practices. Gerontology is inadequate without a lens for examining how critical analysis and social action might inform one another. To shift from disruption to transformation in the “new normal,” scholars must bring the past and future into the present to engage realistic utopian pedagogies of hope. Emancipatory gerontology offers a theoretical framework and vocabulary for interrogating individual and social consequences of major policy and institutional forces in relation to aging and generations across the lifecourse.

Police as “Helpers”: Social Studies Content Standards and Dominant Narratives of Law Enforcement

Curricular standards have the potential to elevate dominant ideology at the expense of marginalized perspectives. Recently, dominant narratives of police as a community benefit have been passionately challenged in the public sphere. Through a critical discourse analysis of social studies content standards of 50 states, we evaluate which narratives about law enforcement are reinforced in K–12 curricula. While police in marginalized communities are widely viewed as illegitimate, implicated in a long history of violence, and embedded in structures of oppression, we find that in social studies standards, they are conveyed as the opposite. The police are legitimate, only momentarily violent, and a functional institution abstracted from oppressive systems. We discuss the implications of this curricular dissonance for marginalized communities.

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan dan Sosial Berdasarkan Sharia Maqasid Index (SMI) pada Perusahaan yang Terdaftar dalam JII Tahun 2016-2020

<p>This study aims to analyze social and financial performance using Sharia Maqasid Index (SMI) developed by Asutay and Harningtyas on companies listed on the Jakarta Islamic Index period 2016- 2020. This research is descriptive quantitative using secondary data. The object of the research is PT. Aneka Tambang, Tbk., PT. Bukit Asam, Tbk. dan PT. United Traktor, Tbk. Data analyzed by Multiple Attribute Decision Making and Simple Additive Weighting. The result showed that the social dan financial performance is low. The score of MSI showed 35,53% for PT. Aneka Tambang, Tbk. , 33,86% for PT Bukit Asam, Tbk. and 28,15% for PT. United Tractor, Tbk. The best achievement on safeguarding human life value. Therefore, need an effort to improve financial and social performance to achieve maqasid al-sharia and provide community benefit.</p>

Teninum iniya tiruneriya tamil

The ‘Lord of Wisdom’ Thirugnanasampantha Peruman, who chose Tamil for Thavamalku, sang by the Lord and received salvation. He has sung satisfactorily about the ways to get rid of all the miseries that occur in daily life, to get education, material, heroism and to get rid of infectious diseases. These great Tamil rituals, realized through Lord Thirugnanasambandar, are a rare boon to human life. Thirugnanasambandare was the first to add his name to Tamil and sing proudly. Nattramizh Thiruneri Tamil The main purpose of the study is to make the community benefit by reading and realizing that Thirugnanasambandar praised the excellence of Tamil. "Anainamathey"; It is as if Lord Thirugnanasambandar is standing up and looking at them as he sings "Enadhurai Tanadhuraiga". All of them, sung by Thirugnanasambandar, are proved to be Shiva's vote. Thus the emphasis on the usefulness of songs is to benefit the society with higher thoughts. Therefore, Thonipurath Origin is a social architect. It is the experience of many that these songs will soon be useful. Thirugnanasambandar restored our mother tongue Tamil language, realized its specialties, and established it as "Theivamozhi Tamil" is a wonderful help made by the time. In the first stanza, he sang the praises of Tamil as "Tiruneriya Tamil Vallavar Tholvinai Tirthal Elathal" (1-1-1). In this day and age, infectious germs have the miraculous ability to prevent us from accessing the "disorder". Therefore, by appreciating this special "Theninum Iniya Thiruneriya Tamil", we will benefit from his songs all over the world.