Parviainen Jaana
Faculty of Social Sciences (SOC), Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Ethical Theory Moral Pract. 2021;24(5):1139-1153. doi: 10.1007/s10677-021-10249-6. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
The idea of the right to mobility has been fundamental to modern Western citizenship and is expressed in many legal and government documents. Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to develop ethical and theoretical tools to portray mobility (in)equalities in old age. This paper develops a novel conceptualisation of kinetic values focusing on older adults whose ability to move has been restricted for internal and external reasons. Informed by the phenomenological theory of kinaesthesia, I suggest that kinetic values are related to four principal dimensions: self-motion, being-moved, co-motion, and forced movement. I assume that these dimensions can address the key dilemma of human dignity among older adults who suffer from losing their autonomy and agency through their mobility impairments and who are at risk of being confined to their homes. To concretise the formulation of kinetic values, I study movement as part of technological equipment and urban infrastructure to examine what kinds of kinetic values mobility services and assistive robots convey for older adults in smart urban environments. By bridging disciplines, the phenomenological approach provides a novel understanding of mobility and the interplay among assistive technologies, kinaesthesia, and urban technological infrastructure. The approach suggests that kinetic values should be interpreted more comprehensively so that kinaesthesia can become better identified as a positive life-promoting practice.
行动权的理念一直是现代西方公民身份的核心，并在许多法律和政府文件中有所体现。尽管人们普遍认可行动能力对老年人的重要性，但很少有人尝试开发伦理和理论工具来描述老年人行动方面的平等与不平等。本文提出了一种关于动能价值的全新概念，重点关注那些因内部和外部原因行动能力受到限制的老年人。基于动觉现象学理论，我认为动能价值与四个主要维度相关：自我移动、被移动、共同移动和强制移动。我假定这些维度能够解决老年人尊严面临的关键困境，这些老年人因行动障碍而失去自主性和能动性，面临被困家中的风险。为了具体阐述动能价值的构成，我将移动视为技术设备和城市基础设施的一部分来研究，以考察在智能城市环境中，移动服务和辅助机器人为老年人传递了何种动能价值。通过跨学科研究，现象学方法为移动以及辅助技术、动觉和城市技术基础设施之间的相互作用提供了全新的理解。该方法表明，应更全面地解读动能价值，以便能更好地将动觉识别为一种促进积极生活的实践。
