Von in Robotik und Krankenhaus: Zur Bedeutung einzelner Handgriffe in aktuellen Aushandlungen um Pflege.

Abstract

The article explores care work as the assemblage of practices, bodies and objects by bringing together empirical findings from ethnografic research in the field of care and cleaning work in hospitals and the field of humanoid service robotics. Thereby, it traces the trend of a fragmentation of care work into efficient and technologised work units, its implications and socio-cultural meanings, as well as the (sexed-gendered, racialised, ableised) normative and regulatory contexts of its appearance. The authors argue for a queer-feminist understanding of the power relations underlying the societal re-organization of care work, but also for looking out for practices that already complicate, challenge and potentially queer those power dynamics. © Lucius & Lucius.