In the World Bank funded development program PSI Sierra, which aims to modernize irrigation technologies in the Peruvian highlands, the complexity of climate change is reduced to the manageable issues of water scarcity and lack of modern technology. By focusing on the encounters between farmers in Colca Valley and PSI engineers, the author argues that most of these encounters can best be analyzed as failed encounters or “disencounters”, which confirm diverging interests and exacerbate differences. The article discusses three modes of disencounters: (a) diverging definitions of problems; (b) different technological practices in terms of flexibility, and (c) distrust emerging from an embodied history of structural inequality. The author argues that instead of supporting farmers to deal with their own-defined problems, the program—through these disencounters—produces other effects: (a) increased uncertainty; (b) the reproduction of hierarchies, and (c) the de-politicization of climate change, inequality, and poverty.

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“你不能反驳工程师”：秘鲁安第斯山脉现代技术、气候变化和权力的遭遇

在世界银行资助的开发项目 PSI Sierra 中，该项目旨在实现秘鲁高地灌溉技术的现代化，气候变化的复杂性被简化为水资源短缺和缺乏现代技术的可管理问题。通过关注科尔卡谷的农民和 PSI 工程师之间的遭遇，作者认为，这些遭遇中的大多数最好被分析为失败的遭遇或“相遇”，这证实了不同的利益并加剧了分歧。这篇文章讨论了三种脱离模式：(a) 对问题的不同定义；(b) 灵活性方面的不同技术实践，以及 (c) 结构不平等的具体历史所产生的不信任。作者认为，与其支持农民解决他们自己定义的问题，该计划——通过这些不接触——产生了其他影响：(a) 增加了不确定性；(b) 等级制度的再生产，以及 (c) 气候变化、不平等和贫困的去政治化。