James Adrian Wright 
Robots Won’t Save Japan [EPUB ebook] 
An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation

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Robots Won’t Save Japan addresses the Japanese government’s efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare, and a critical shortage of care workers. Drawing on ethnographic research at key sites of Japanese robot development and implementation, James Wright reveals how such devices are likely to transform the practices, organization, meanings, and ethics of caregiving if implemented at scale.

This new form of techno-welfare state that Japan is prototyping involves a reconfiguration of care that deskills and devalues care work and reduces opportunities for human social interaction and relationship building. Moreover, contrary to expectations that care robots will save labor and reduce health care expenditures, robots cost more money and require additional human labor to tend to the machines. As Wright shows, robots alone will not rescue Japan from its care crisis. The attempts to implement robot care instead point to the importance of looking beyond such techno-fixes to consider how to support rather than undermine the human times, spaces, and relationships necessary for sustainably cultivating good care.

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Introduction
1. Crisis and Care Robots
2. Developing Robots and Designing Algorithmic Care
3. Portrait of a Care Home
4. Hug: Reconfiguring Lifting
5. Paro: Reconfiguring Communication
6. Pepper: Reconfiguring Recreation
7. Beyond Care Robots

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James Wright is a Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute. Follow him on X @jms_wright.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 198 ● ISBN 9781501768057 ● Saiz fail 10.4 MB ● Penerbit Cornell University Press ● Bandar raya Ithaca ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2023 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 8786071 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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