Most literature on sanitation largely follows a developmentalist approach, searching for the right combination of public education, appropriate technology, and partnerships across local and international institutions. Such works are useful, but also can be read as demonstrating the limitations of focusing on the modern infrastructural ideal of uniform, networked services. Studies of household experiences and practices of infrastructure in global south cities have increasingly drawn attention to the heterogeneity of sanitation infrastructure, associated everyday practices and power-laden relationships. In this study, we analyse the introduction of the gulper pump (a new sanitation technology in Kampala) and the political processes that have shaped its slow and stochastic uptake. Advocates suggest that the gulper might well redress gaps left by the more commonly used technologies, yet procedural concerns led to conflict over the introduction of the gulper. In a wider context of new governance arrangements and infrastructural experimentation, controversy over the gulper contributed to new institutions and imaginaries of what good urban sanitation entails. We emphasize that thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations highlights how social norms and relations, economic gain as well as the state play an important part in both politicizing and legitimizing more heterogeneous urban sanitation services.

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权力、政治和便便泵：关于坎帕拉卫生技术合法性、获取和利益的争论

大多数关于卫生的文献主要遵循发展主义的方法，寻找公共教育、适当的技术以及地方和国际机构之间的伙伴关系的正确组合。这些作品很有用，但也可以被解读为展示了专注于统一网络服务的现代基础设施理想的局限性。对全球南方城市的家庭经验和基础设施实践的研究越来越关注卫生基础设施的异质性、相关的日常实践和充满权力的关系。在这项研究中，我们分析了大口水泵（坎帕拉的一种新卫生技术）的引入以及影响其缓慢和随机采用的政治过程。支持者认为，gulper 可能会很好地弥补更常用的技术留下的差距，但程序上的担忧导致了关于引入 gulper 的冲突。在新的治理安排和基础设施试验的更广泛背景下，关于吞食器的争议促成了新的机构和对良好城市卫生所需要的想象。我们强调，通过异构基础设施配置的思考突出了社会规范和关系、经济收益以及国家如何在将更加多样化的城市卫生服务政治化和合法化方面发挥重要作用。关于gulper的争议促成了新的机构和对良好的城市卫生所需要的想象。我们强调，通过异构基础设施配置的思考突出了社会规范和关系、经济收益以及国家如何在将更加多样化的城市卫生服务政治化和合法化方面发挥重要作用。关于gulper的争议促成了新的机构和对良好的城市卫生所需要的想象。我们强调，通过异构基础设施配置的思考突出了社会规范和关系、经济收益以及国家如何在将更加多样化的城市卫生服务政治化和合法化方面发挥重要作用。