This article analyzes the politics of scale in global development by focusing on a sanitation program in western Kenya. It follows the daily work of a nongovernmental organization that seeks to provide access to chlorine dispensers to millions of people for the purpose of disinfecting water. By engaging with literatures on development and infrastructure, this article proposes reach as an analytic that jointly attends to the aspirations, labors, and uncertain outcomes embedded in scale work. An ethnography of reach emphasizes the temporality of off‐grid infrastructures to capture the ambivalent relationships between aspirations and results and between standardization and adaptation, as well as the unstable nature of care. This proves useful to theorizing expansion as potentially generative of, rather than only inimical to, the good life—thereby troubling the vision of scale making as replication often used to understand development projects and their consequences.

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惠及数百万人：肯尼亚的水、替代基础设施和规模政治


本文重点关注肯尼亚西部的卫生项目，分析了全球发展中的规模政治。它讲述了一个非政府组织的日常工作，该组织致力于为数百万人提供氯分配器以对水进行消毒。通过查阅有关发展和基础设施的文献，本文提出将影响力作为一种分析方法，共同关注规模工作中包含的愿望、劳动力和不确定的结果。影响范围的民族志强调离网基础设施的暂时性，以捕捉愿望与结果之间、标准化与适应之间的矛盾关系，以及护理的不稳定性质。事实证明，这有助于将扩张理论化为美好生活的潜在创造者，而不仅仅是有害的——从而扰乱了规模化的愿景，因为复制通常用于理解开发项目及其后果。