Paperback. Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, 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. The first ethnography of non-Japanese workers experiences in the Japanese eldercare sector.Essentialising representations are shown to shape social relations not only in negative ways.Focuses on eldercare institutions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Reluctant Intimacies (Paperback)
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1800730160
ISBN 13: 9781800730168
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, 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.

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Beata Świtek is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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