Spoiling and Sustainability: Technology, Water Insecurity, and Visibility in Arctic Alaska
Spoiling and Sustainability: Technology, Water Insecurity, and Visibility in Arctic Alaska
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DOI：
10.1080/01459740.2014.917374
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发表时间：
2014-11-02
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Eichelberger, Laura
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作者：
Eichelberger, Laura
阿拉斯加原住民村庄三分之一的家庭缺乏自来水和下水道服务。从历史上看，这种公共卫生需求推动了改善获得处理过的水和卫生设施的政策。然而，尽管公共卫生是水基础设施发展的一个明确优先事项，但目前的政策要求以使水不安全的痛苦看不见的方式证明经济可持续性。在这篇文章中，我将介绍水处理技术在统治与脆弱性共同产生的历史。这些过程反映在描述技术、传统和苦难之间关系的地方叙事中。通过提请人们注意国家在造成脆弱性方面的作用，村庄领导人正试图将他们的健康问题历史化，并将其插入可持续性对话中，使用既适合又挑战可持续性意识形态的叙述。因此，这些叙述是因努皮亚特人争取能见度的核心。
One third of households in Alaska Native villages lack running water and sewer services. Historically, this public health need drove policies to improve access to treated water and sanitation. However, despite public health being a stated priority of water infrastructure development, current policies require demonstrated economic sustainability in ways that render suffering from water insecurity invisible. In this article, I situate the introduction of water treatment technologies within the history of domination coproduced with vulnerability. These processes are reflected in local narratives describing the relationships between technology, tradition, and suffering. By drawing attention to the role of the state in creating vulnerability, village leaders are trying to historicize and insert their health concerns into the sustainability conversation using narratives that both fit within and challenge the ideology of sustainability. These narratives are thus central to Inupiat struggles for visibility.