Robo sapiens japanicus

Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Jennifer Robertson

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Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots-humanoids, androids, animaloids-are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-11-10
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520283190

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"Jennifer Robertson’s engaging and insightful book Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family and the Japanese Nation is one of the first scholarly works to examine the social and cultural implications of robotics in Japan. . . . Robertson’s book breaks new ground by putting the field of Japanese robotics technology into conversation with social scientific scholarship on gender, nationalism, and disability. The book will be of great interest to researchers working in these fields and will surely stimulate further work on the culture of robotics. Robertson is a gifted writer whose prose is fluid and free of jargon. Advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will encounter little difficulty in making their way through the text. They and other readers will be well rewarded for doing so."