ABSTRACT Two years of observations and interviews provided evidence of injustices as state officials ignored calls for monitoring by residents at a toxic waste site in Phoenix Arizona. When federal investigators arrived, they found toxic vapours exceeded regulatory levels in 17 homes and businesses out of the 77 locations sampled. That prompted a shift among the research team from observation to research intervention. Two public engagements were designed to perturb routine interactions between residents living on contaminated urban land and the government officials and corporate agents managing the environmental remediation efforts. The framing of techno-politics offers insights about who was excluded from decisions by non-elected technical experts and why they were excluded. Techno-politics, when used to focus on the urban-scale, demonstrates how historical decisions and values continue to influence contemporary actions and behaviours. Further, the concept of infrastructuring reveals what social, legal and technical mechanisms were built and how those modules were woven into the complex socio-technical system. In this way, it questions underlying assumptions, calls attention to short-term decisions, and highlights the lack experimentation and rigidity of the techno-political regime. It became evident that government officials and corporate agents believe the current technology can contain contamination for a thousand years. Thus, the obduracy of infrastructure came into relief and the intervention research made transparent the ways in which power and authority were used to maintain the status quo and perpetuate injustices. While alternative visions can theoretically counteract techno-political arrangements, it remains to be seen if transformative changes will occur.

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从公众参与到研究干预：城市技术政治的过程分析与成果探索

摘要两年的观察和访谈提供了不公正的证据，因为州官员无视亚利桑那州凤凰城有毒废物现场居民进行监测的呼吁。当联邦调查人员到达时，他们发现有77个采样点中的17个家庭和企业中的有毒蒸气超过了监管水平。这促使研究团队从观察转向研究干预。设计了两个公共活动，以扰乱生活在受污染的城市土地上的居民与管理环境修复工作的政府官员和企业代理人之间的日常互动。TECHNO-政治见解提供的框架是谁被非民选的技术专家排除在决策和他们为什么被排除在外。当技术政治习惯于关注城市规模时，说明了历史决策和价值观如何继续影响当代的行为和行为。此外，基础设施的概念还揭示了建立了哪些社会，法律和技术机制，以及如何将这些模块编织到复杂的社会技术系统中。这样，它质疑基本的假设，引起对短期决策的关注，并强调了技术政治体制缺乏试验性和僵化性。显然，政府官员和公司代理人相信，目前的技术可以抑制污染一千年。因此，基础设施的笨拙化解了，干预研究使使用权力和权威维持现状并永久维持不公正的方式变得透明。