Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia
Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia
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流离失所、时间和抵抗：等待在促进哥伦比亚国内流离失所者占领方面的作用
作者：
Karen Schouw Iversen
这篇文章通过讨论哥伦比亚境内流离失所者领导的职业，对现有关于等待政治的文献做出了贡献。这本文献既强调了等待经常带来的力量，也越来越强调了等待所能构成的机构。然而，关于等待在产生阻力方面的潜在作用，人们谈得很少。根据福柯学派对权力与抵抗密切相关的理解，本文探讨了在某些情况下，等待如何产生抵抗。它利用2017年10月至2018年8月在哥伦比亚波哥大进行的实地调查，包括人种学观察和对国内流离失所者和国家官员进行的120次访谈，探讨等待国内流离失所者在哥伦比亚流离失所的经历的核心意义。与那些认为这种等待鼓励被动的人相反，这篇文章引用了波哥大境内流离失所者长达两年的占领的讨论，认为占领的参与者在参与占领之前的漫长等待时间有助于促进占领。等待在两个主要方面促成了占领：把一群人聚集在一起，如果他们不是被迫近距离长时间在一起的话，他们就不会见面；以及成为促使占领的挫折的一个关键来源。
This article contributes to the existing literature on the politics of waiting by discussing occupations led by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia. This literature has emphasised both the power that waiting frequently entails and, increasingly, the agency it can comprise. Yet less has been said about the potential role of waiting in generating resistance. Drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of power as intimately tied to resistance, this article explores how waiting can, in some instances, produce resistance. It uses fieldwork conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, between October 2017 and August 2018, including ethnographic observations and 120 interviews conducted with IDPs and state officials, to explore the centrality of waiting to IDPs’ experiences of displacement in Colombia. Contrary to those who would argue that such waiting encourages passivity, the article draws on a discussion of a two-year-long occupation by IDPs in Bogotá to argue that the long waiting periods facing the occupation’s participants prior to partaking in it were instrumental to facilitating the occupation. Waiting enabled the occupation in two major ways: by bringing together a group of people who would not have met had they not been forced to spend prolonged time together in close quarters and by constituting a key source of frustration motivating the occupation.