Drawing on an ethnography of life in a Ghanaian weaving workshop, this article traces the intersections between young rural weavers’ affective labour, hope and their experiences of immobility. Hope is explored as an ambivalent resource which shapes the shared, social materiality of their craftwork, the spiritual beliefs which give meaningful shape to the challenges of craft livelihoods and the imaginaries and lived experiences which compose young weavers’ sense of migration and mobility. Entangled in the precarious logics of late capitalism, these hopes simultaneously offer young craftsmen a sense of existential mobility, whilst curtailing and circumscribing possibilities for sustained and systemic change. In this, the ‘not-yet’ hopefulness of immobility is examined as a complex affective and political field, shot through with tense anticipation, longing and disappointment.

本文以加纳编织车间中的生活民族志为研究对象，追溯了年轻农村编织者的情感劳动，希望与他们的不动手经历之间的交集。希望被探索为一种矛盾的资源，可以塑造他们的手工艺品的共享，社会物质性，精神信仰，这些精神观念对手工艺品的生计挑战和虚构的生活体验构成了有意义的形状，这些构想构成了年轻编织者的迁徙和流动感。这些希望陷入了晚期资本主义的不稳定逻辑之中，同时为年轻的工匠提供了生存的流动感，同时减少并限制了持续和系统性变化的可能性。在这种情况下，人们将动静的“尚未”希望作为一个复杂的情感和政治领域进行了考察，并通过紧张的期待得以解决，