Anne Aronsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 270504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Aronsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Aronsson |
| SIGNATURE | ARONSSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3596-7011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan
Japanese care centers have seen an increasing reliance on robotic assistance in service and social-care tasks, which poses questions about ethics, governance, and caregiving practices. This article addresses the concept of robotics as a media technology, and the role of human agency in shaping imagination as an interpretive framework as it reflects on two specific points of debate; (1) whether the humanoid robot Pepper, deployed in an elder-care …
Making Our Own Destiny
A plethora of works explore the difficulties, travails, and traditional perceptions of women of all socioeconomic and political backgrounds in Japan, while serving to provide a voice for these women. The most notable contributions are Women and Family in Contemporary Japan (Holloway 2010), Too Few Women at the Top (Nemoto 2016), Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play Under Neoliberalism (Gagn 2021), Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor…
Invisibility by Design
Over the past 10 years, a plethora of works have explored the position of women and gender roles in Japan (e.g. Iversen and Rosenbluth 2010; Rosenberger 2014; Nemoto 2016; Steel 2019). They each give Japanese women a voice in multiple social, economic, and political contexts. Gabriella Lukács’ Invisibility by Design adds to these influential works by investigating how digital technologies use and hide young women’s labor by taking advantage of in…
Multispecies entanglements in the virosphere
In this essay, we reevaluate the 2019 outbreak of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from the perspective of multispecies entanglements. It is argued that anthropogenic alterations in the biosphere will most likely accelerate the rate of multispecies pandemics in the Anthropocene. Using a textual analysis approach of anthropological and historical sources on the example of coronaviruses and live animal markets in China, we trace how the virosphere …
Professional Women and Elder Care in Contemporary Japan
The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world's highest population of older adults. Concurrently, the country has a rapidly declining birth rate. As the population ages, the workforce is shrinking and leaving a high number of elders with fewer ca…
Conceptualizing Robotic Agency. Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan
Japan is a hyper-aging society, and its government is encouraging robotic solutions to address elder care labor shortage. Therefore, authorities have adopted an agenda of introducing social robots. However, increasing numbers of people in Japan are becoming emotionally attached to anthropomorphic machines, and their introduction into elder care may thus be perceived as contentious. By exploring human engagement with social robots in the care cont…
Contemporary Japanese Career Women
In this article, I explore what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in today’s neoliberal economy and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. I ask why and how one fourth of Japanese women stay on a career track, often against considerable odds, while the other three fourths drop out of the workforce. Employment trends indicate that more white-collar professional women are breaking through the “glass ceiling” …
Career Women in Contemporary Japan
Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to…
Multispecies entanglements in the virosphere
In this essay, we reevaluate the 2019 outbreak of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from the perspective of multispecies entanglements. It is argued that anthropogenic alterations in the biosphere will most likely accelerate the rate of multispecies pandemics in the Anthropocene. Using a textual analysis approach of anthropological and historical sources on the example of coronaviruses and live animal markets in China, we trace how the virosphere …
Contemporary Japanese Career Women
In this article, I explore what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in today’s neoliberal economy and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. I ask why and how one fourth of Japanese women stay on a career track, often against considerable odds, while the other three fourths drop out of the workforce. Employment trends indicate that more white-collar professional women are breaking through the “glass ceiling” …
Career Women in Contemporary Japan
Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to…
Contemporary Japanese Career Women
In this article, I explore what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in today’s neoliberal economy and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. I ask why and how one fourth of Japanese women stay on a career track, often against considerable odds, while the other three fourths drop out of the workforce. Employment trends indicate that more white-collar professional women are breaking through the “glass ceiling” …
Conceptualizing Robotic Agency. Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan
Japan is a hyper-aging society, and its government is encouraging robotic solutions to address elder care labor shortage. Therefore, authorities have adopted an agenda of introducing social robots. However, increasing numbers of people in Japan are becoming emotionally attached to anthropomorphic machines, and their introduction into elder care may thus be perceived as contentious. By exploring human engagement with social robots in the care cont…
Invisibility by Design
Over the past 10 years, a plethora of works have explored the position of women and gender roles in Japan (e.g. Iversen and Rosenbluth 2010; Rosenberger 2014; Nemoto 2016; Steel 2019). They each give Japanese women a voice in multiple social, economic, and political contexts. Gabriella Lukács’ Invisibility by Design adds to these influential works by investigating how digital technologies use and hide young women’s labor by taking advantage of in…
Multispecies entanglements in the virosphere
In this essay, we reevaluate the 2019 outbreak of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from the perspective of multispecies entanglements. It is argued that anthropogenic alterations in the biosphere will most likely accelerate the rate of multispecies pandemics in the Anthropocene. Using a textual analysis approach of anthropological and historical sources on the example of coronaviruses and live animal markets in China, we trace how the virosphere …
Professional Women and Elder Care in Contemporary Japan
The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world's highest population of older adults. Concurrently, the country has a rapidly declining birth rate. As the population ages, the workforce is shrinking and leaving a high number of elders with fewer ca…
Making Our Own Destiny
A plethora of works explore the difficulties, travails, and traditional perceptions of women of all socioeconomic and political backgrounds in Japan, while serving to provide a voice for these women. The most notable contributions are Women and Family in Contemporary Japan (Holloway 2010), Too Few Women at the Top (Nemoto 2016), Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play Under Neoliberalism (Gagn 2021), Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor…
Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan
Japanese care centers have seen an increasing reliance on robotic assistance in service and social-care tasks, which poses questions about ethics, governance, and caregiving practices. This article addresses the concept of robotics as a media technology, and the role of human agency in shaping imagination as an interpretive framework as it reflects on two specific points of debate; (1) whether the humanoid robot Pepper, deployed in an elder-care …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic shortage (2 works) · Economics (2 works)