Eleven Japanese corporate executives and 10 Bangladeshi village-based entrepreneurs stand around an array of gleaming solar panels perched precariously on piles of bricks and hay. Despite being labeled a “social enterprise,” this solar-energy initiative emerged neither from development planning nor from a company’s market strategy. Instead, the project emerged from a chaotic series of events and the Japanese state’s decentralized patronage politics that drew together a cluster of non-state actors in a haphazard initiative in Bangladesh. This article offers an ethnographic case of ephemeral encounters (building on Faier and Rofel) and contributes to a theory of transient assemblages in development (drawing on Tsing and DeLanda). It teases apart the diverse factors that produced and were produced by a solar social-enterprise pilot project, which neither arose from a plan for a social enterprise nor generated one. I argue for a diffuse understanding of project agency, the productivity of noncommunicative interaction, and the unequal material politics that characterize these encounters across difference. This alternative view on development decenters the project and instead focuses on the emergent properties of the act of assembling, even when the assemblage fails to cohere.

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短暂的组合、短暂的相遇，以及孟加拉国农村日本社会企业的“美丽故事”

11 位日本企业高管和 10 位孟加拉国乡村企业家站在一堆闪闪发光的太阳能电池板周围，这些太阳能电池板摇摇欲坠地栖息在成堆的砖块和干草上。尽管被贴上了“社会企业”的标签，但这项太阳能计划既不是来自发展规划，也不是来自公司的市场战略。相反，该项目是从一系列混乱的事件和日本政府分散的赞助政治中产生的，这些政治将一群非国家行为者聚集在一起，在孟加拉国进行了一项随意的倡议。这篇文章提供了一个短暂相遇的民族志案例（建立在 Faier 和 Rofel 的基础上），并对发展中的瞬态组合理论做出了贡献（借鉴了 Tsing 和 DeLanda）。它梳理了太阳能社会企业试点项目产生和产生的各种因素，这既不是来自社会企业的计划，也不是产生的。我主张对项目代理、非交流互动的生产力以及这些跨越差异的遭遇的不平等物质政治有广泛的理解。这种关于开发的另类观点使项目中心化，转而关注组装行为的涌现特性，即使组装未能凝​​聚在一起。