Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India
Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India
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关爱神圣的基础设施：印度经济特区的自然与精神
DOI：
10.1080/00141844.2015.1107609
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2016
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Miho Ishii
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Jensen Casper Bruun;Ballestero Andrea;de la Cadena Marisol;Fisch Michael;Ishii Miho;Miho Ishii
本文探讨精神（babuta）崇拜在印度的经济特区（SEZ），通过考虑照顾周围的自然和基础设施的特定星座的做法：流体，偶然组合的“自然”和“人工”环境。现代环境中的神秘现象常常被解释为新无产阶级对现代性的隐喻性批评。然而，在经济特区，承担主要责任的不是工人，而是管理人员。此外，这些仪式的主要目的不是为了分裂，而是为了连接现代技术、自然和神灵。经济特区管理层承担着一个集合体的主要管理者的角色，这个集合体既构成了工业工厂，也构成了精神地标。这些仪式使人们能够管理基础设施与精神和自然的纠缠，这些精神和自然不仅是现代的，而且是野性和神圣的。在照顾这些纠缠的过程中，人们尝试了新的本体论安排。
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India by considering practices of care around specific constellations of nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages of the ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ environments. Occult phenomena in modern settings have often been interpreted as metaphorical critiques of modernity by neophyte proletarians. In the SEZ, however, it is not workers but executives who undertake the primary role inbūtarituals. In addition, the rituals’ main aim is towards not division but connection among modern technology, nature, and divinities. The SEZ management assumes the role of primary caretaker of an assemblage which constitutes both industrial plants and spiritual landmarks. The rituals enable the people to manage the entanglements of infrastructure with spirits and nature, which are not only modern but also untamed and divine. In the process of caring for these entanglements, people experiment with novel ontological arrangements.