O envelhecimento e a velhice no Brasil sob a ótica das expulsões , de Saskia Sassen

Abstract

This article applies the Dutch sociologist Saskia Sassen's concept of expulsions in the analysis of the categories of old age and aging processes studied for more than thirty years by the Brazilian anthropologist Guita Grin Debert. To this end, Sassen's book Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, from 2016 and Debert's book The Reinvention of Old Age: Socialization and Processes of Reprivatization of Aging, from 1999, are used as conceptual reference. From them, a reflection on the process perceived by Debert as the reprivatization of aging (a national and global trend) is established, bringing the movement of expulsions analyzed at a global level by Sassen to a national level. The complexity of the theme of old age in Brazil - and its moral, political, economic, and cultural dilemmas existing between the 2000s and 2023s - is exposed and analyzed from the perspective of subterranean tendencies and systemic affinities whose definitions and conceptual and historical applicabilities are exemplified by the sociologist as creators and sustainers of these expulsions.