Anticipatory infrastructural practices: The coming of electricity in rural Kenya
Anticipatory infrastructural practices: The coming of electricity in rural Kenya
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预期基础设施实践：肯尼亚农村地区电力的到来
DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.001
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
B. R. Winthereik
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文献类型：
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作者：
Lea Enslev;Lykke Mirsal;B. R. Winthereik
本文探讨了肯尼亚农村一个村庄的国家电网的延伸如何影响家庭的能源使用实践。基于人种学研究，本文考察了人们在预期电力时是如何行动的，以及在部分电力基础设施存在的情况下，生活中出现了哪些能源实践，并在人类学基础设施研究和STS的基础上，建议社区成员通过他们的准备实践参与电力基础设施的形成。通过预见性行动建立电力基础设施尚未受到研究，但正如文章所述，能源基础设施正是通过获得诸如资源堆叠或适应故障和波动的电价等能力而构成的。文章进一步认为，预期的某些对象允许为不确定的电力和政治未来做准备。通过利用预期基础设施实践的概念，本文的主要贡献是丰富了对参与政治的理解，也涵盖了与能源分配和使用相关的世俗行动。这与未来接入电网的人数将大幅增加的预期有关。
This paper explores how the extension of the national electricity grid in a village in rural Kenya affects households’ energy using practices. Based on ethnographic research, this paper examines how people act while anticipating electricity as well as what energy practices emerge as part of life with a partial presence of electricity infrastructure.Drawing on anthropological infrastructure studies and STS, the paper suggests members of a community participate in the formation of an electricity infrastructure through their preparatory practices. The making of electricity infrastructures through anticipatory actions has not yet been subject to research, but as the article argues, it is precisely by acquiring competences like stacking of resources or adjusting to breakdowns and volatile electricity prices that energy infrastructures are composed. The paper further argues that certainobjects of anticipationallow for making preparations in relation to uncertain electric and political futures.By leveraging the notion ofanticipatory infrastructural practicesthe main contribution of this article is to enrich the understanding of participatory politics to also encompass mundane actions related to energy distribution and use. This is relevant in anticipation of a future where a dramatically higher number of people will become grid connected.