Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of Care

Casey R. Lynch, David Bissell, Lily A. House-Peters and Vincent J. Del Casino

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022, vol. 112, issue 3, 684-691

Abstract: Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long thought to require uniquely human skills. These developments call for a retheorization of displacement that addresses the shifting sites and relations of human labor, while also questioning the humanness of care. This intervention supplements a humanist concern for the displacement of discrete human bodies with a posthuman concern for the displacement of specific affective relations. The emerging robotic care industry illustrates how displacement involves complex reconfigurations of more-than-human intimacy. Developing a micropolitical understanding of technological displacement, we argue that caring as a sensory set of affective relations is being transformed by new regimes of robotic care, and this has crucial implications for theorizations of care, automation, and displacement in geography.

Date: 2022
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