“Wait, and the sky will change its color” is a saying that, in Thai, points toward a future that will erase the unbearable present. But what does it mean to wait? In Northeastern Thailand, I explore this experience of holding the present in tension with an uncertain future via examples drawn from religious upheaval, political revolution, and the lives of migrant workers. Waiting on that which never comes, in this context, is neither nihilism nor escapism, but allows for the opening a space of fantasy—the imaginative horizon that allows a rethinking of the everyday. [anticipation, millenarianism, imagination, waiting, migrant labor, Thailand]

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等待与天空将改变：泰国东北部的期待与革命

俗话说：“等待，天空将改变其颜色”，用泰语指向一种未来，它将消除无法忍受的当下。但是等待意味着什么呢？在泰国东北部，我通过宗教动荡，政治革命和移民工人的生活中的例子，探索了使当前处于紧张状态，前途未卜的经验。在这种情况下，等待永远不会出现的既不是虚无主义也不是逃避现实，而是允许打开幻想的空间，即一种幻想的视野，可以重新思考日常生活。[预期，一千年，想象，等待，移民劳工，泰国]