GEDEON ACHI, Fiona

doi:10.1002/sea2.12329

GEDEON ACHI, Fiona
Bordeaux population health [BPH]

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Economic anthropology. 2024-09-02, vol. 12, n° 1

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This article analyzes the politics of scale in global development by focusing on a sanitation program in western Kenya. It follows the daily work of a nongovernmental organization that seeks to provide access to chlorine dispensers to millions of people for the purpose of disinfecting water. By engaging with literatures on development and infrastructure, this article proposes reach as an analytic that jointly attends to the aspirations, labors, and uncertain outcomes embedded in scale work. An ethnography of reach emphasizes the temporality of off-grid infrastructures to capture the ambivalent relationships between aspirations and results and between standardization and adaptation, as well as the unstable nature of care. This proves useful to theorizing expansion as potentially generative of, rather than only inimical to, the good life—thereby troubling the vision of scale making as replication often used to understand development projects and their consequences. © 2024 The Author(s). Economic Anthropology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association.< Réduire

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Bordeaux Population Health Research Center (BPH) - UMR 1219

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Reaching millions: Water, substitute infrastructure, and the politics of scale in Kenya

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