The 100th object: Solar lighting technology and humanitarian goods
The 100th object: Solar lighting technology and humanitarian goods
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DOI：
10.1177/1359183513498959
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发表时间：
2013-12-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Cross, Jamie
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作者：
Cross, Jamie
2010年底，大英博物馆在他们的展览《100件物品中的世界历史》中展示了最后一件艺术品：一款便携式太阳能灯，专为非洲和亚洲生活在没有电力供应的人设计并出售给人们。太阳能电灯已经成为非洲和亚洲社会创业的标志性对象，本文探讨了将其作为人道主义产品生产所涉及的工作。从斯坦福大学教室的概念到印度农村的销售点和使用点，这是第100件物品，文章探索了它是如何实现关怀伦理和商业利益伦理的。根据社会技术研究的传统和米歇尔·卡隆的概念词汇，作者认为，像超负担得起的太阳能灯这样的物品的意义在于它们创造和定义金字塔底部的市场的能力。
At the end of 2010, the British Museum unveiled the final artefact in their exhibition A History of the World in 100 Objects': a portable solar-powered lamp designed for and sold to people living without access to mains electricity in Africa and Asia. Solar-powered lights have become iconic objects of social entrepreneurship in Africa and Asia and this article explores the work involved in producing them as humanitarian goods. Following the 100th object from its conception in a Stanford University classroom to points of sale and use in rural India, the article explores how it has been made to materialise both an ethic of care and an ethic of commercial interest. Drawing from traditions in the social study of technology and the conceptual vocabulary of Michel Callon, the author argues that the significance of objects like the ultra-affordable solar lamp lies in their capacity to make and define markets at the bottom of the pyramid'.