This article considers how solar energy discourse in the 1970s othered rural bodies in India. In the 1970s, proponents of solar energy seized the opportunity provided by the oil crisis to argue for their technology as a clean, cheap, abundant, and universal alternate. The community characterized solar energy as a technical problem, yet in house design, they relied on subjective parameters like thermal comfort. Investigating the designs of solar cooling and heating systems for houses in semi-arid rural Punjab in the 1970s, this article argues that first world parameters like “comfort” and “house” were taken as universal standards when in fact they were historically constituted ideas. This elision of history had the effect of othering the rural bodies for which they were designed.

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农村地区的太阳能系统

本文考虑了 1970 年代的太阳能话语如何影响印度的农村地区。在 1970 年代，太阳能的支持者抓住石油危机提供的机会，主张将他们的技术作为清洁、廉价、丰富和通用的替代技术。社区将太阳能视为一个技术问题，但在房屋设计中，他们依赖于热舒适度等主观参数。本文调查了 1970 年代旁遮普半干旱农村地区的太阳能供暖系统设计，认为“舒适”和“房屋”等第一世界参数被视为普遍标准，而实际上它们是历史构成的想法。这种历史的省略产生了将它们设计用于的农村机构的效果。