{"product_id":"robots-wont-save-japan-an-ethnography-of-eldercare-automation-hardback-9781501768040","title":"Robots Won't Save Japan; An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation (Hardback) 9781501768040","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRobots Won't Save Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Ethnography of Eldercare Automation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Adrian Wright (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501768040\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e198 pages, 6 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 6 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title says it all, really, Robots Won't Save Japan, but do read the book if you want to be convinced, because you will be. The author, anthropologist and science and technology studies (STS) scholar James Wright, has adopted this title in reaction to a Japanese book from a generation ago, Robots Will Save Japan (Nakayama 2006).\u003c\/p\u003e (Anthropology \u0026amp; Aging) \u003cp\u003eRobots Won't Save Japan is a vivid example for how ethnographic research can enrich and deepen our understanding of complex social and political problems\u003c\/p\u003e (Contemporary Japan) \u003cp\u003eJames Adrian Wright's ethnography \u003ci\u003eRobots Won't Save Japan \u003c\/i\u003eis dedicated precisely to the gap between promised solution and actual state of implementation of Japanese care robots.\u003c\/p\u003e (Symbolic Interaction)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobots Won't Save Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003eDrawing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Crisis and Care Robots\u003cbr\u003e 2. Developing Robots and Designing Algorithmic Care\u003cbr\u003e 3. Portrait of a Care Home\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hug: Reconfiguring Lifting\u003cbr\u003e 5. Paro: Reconfiguring Communication\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pepper: Reconfiguring Recreation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beyond Care Robots\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608083853592,"sku":"9781501768040","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/robots-wont-save-japan-an-ethnography-of-eldercare-automation-hardback-9781501768040","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}