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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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