不安的纠葛

Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.3167/cja.2020.380205

E. Dean

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本文考虑了最近太阳能技术在桑给巴尔群岛的快速涌入所揭示的纠缠。2009年至2010年，由于技术故障，桑给巴尔岛有三个月没有电力供应。此后，桑给巴尔政府寻求多种途径来提高能源自主权，其中包括太阳能。然而，由于政治冲突的遗留问题和新的依赖与不平等关系，太阳能发展所承诺的能源独立的未来变得复杂起来。通过对国内能源用户、政府官员、国家工程师和非政府组织活动家的采访，并在桑给巴尔独特的革命后背景下，本文探讨了太阳能创新和投资如何促进社会、经济和政治纠缠的重新构想，同时再现了持续的等级制度、包容和排斥话语。

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Uneasy Entanglements

This article considers the entanglements revealed by the recent and rapid influx of solar technology on the archipelago of Zanzibar. Following a technical failure that left the islands without electricity for three months in 2009–10, the Zanzibari government has pursued several avenues to increase energy autonomy, including solar power. However, the future of energy independence promised by solar development is complicated by a legacy of political conflict and new relationships of dependence and inequality. Drawing on interviews with domestic energy users, government officials, state engineers and NGO activists, and situated within the unique post-revolutionary context of Zanzibar, this article explores how solar innovations and investments contribute to the reimagining of social, economic and political entanglements while simultaneously reproducing persistent discourses of hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion.

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Cambridge anthropology : a journal of the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University

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