Robots in Religious Practices: A Review

J Simmerlein, M Tretter - Theology and Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A growing number of robots perform religious practices. Consequently, a lot of
research is already done on robots and religion. What has been missing from the current …

Robots and care of the ageing self: An emerging economy of loneliness

G Pratt, C Johnston, K Johnson - Environment and Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
What happens when caring for the ageing population is so devalued that robots are
deployed to care for our elders? We examine the growing employment of companion robots …

[HTML][HTML] Unblackboxing mediation in the digital mine

KG Sammler, L House-Peters - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
As natural resource extraction moves into increasingly remote frontiers, rapidly proliferating
technologies associated with digitization and automation are respatializing technical and …

Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities

CR Lynch - Dialogues in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Reflecting on Leszczynski and Elwood's theorization of glitch epistemology, this commentary
argues for epistemological approaches to the question of (artificial) intelligence in …

Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern

JJ Schmidt - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This report focuses on moral description. It considers how comparative practices often
entangle moral geography in philosophical dilemmas, such as debates over moral …

[HTML][HTML] Automating adult social care in the UK: Extracting value from a crisis

C Johnston, G Pratt - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
The UK appears fixed in perpetual care crisis propelled by austerity-driven funding cuts and
the country's intensifying care labour shortage. Austerity in the UK has generated an …

The politics of deautomation: Being disaffected by platform capitalism

D Bissell - Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Being affected in on-demand platform urbanism is a primary site of politics, not an aftereffect
that happens once capitalism has had its way. To make this argument, this article begins by …

Control and Resistance in Automated Shops: Retail Transparency, Deep Learning, and Digital Refusal

T Dekeyser, CR Lynch - Antipode, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Through the enrolment of big data, deep learning, sensor fusion, and computer vision
technologies, Amazon Go and similar shops pursue the automated management of retail …

Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service

W Lin - Mobilities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, the concept of mobile labour has garnered increasing attention among mobilities
scholars. Yet, the preponderance of research has emphasised workers' movements that are …

Transforming dispositions towards automation

D Bissell - Dialogues in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Speaking to debates on how digital automation is changing people's capacities, my
commentary affirms the value of surveying the myriad dispositions to automation that are …