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Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Beata Switek
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Description for Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Hardback. Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers. Num Pages: 242 pages, 2 maps, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 1FPJ; JHMC; JKSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national other in Japan.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national other in Japan.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332692
SKU
V9781785332692
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About Beata Switek
Beata Switek is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
Reviews for Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
This study is based on in-depth research involving a good analysis of the articulation of national identities, sense of belonging and local labour markets with the social and bodily intimacies related to care for the elderly in Japanese institutions.
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Ratna Saptari, Leiden University Switek's study is a significant contribution to studies of migration in relation to national ... Read more