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.

本文通过讨论哥伦比亚境内流离失所者 (IDP) 领导的职业，为有关等待政治的现有文献做出贡献。这些文献既强调了等待经常带来的力量，也越来越强调它可以包含的机构。然而，关于等待在产生阻力方面的潜在作用却鲜为人知。本文借鉴福柯对权力与抵抗密切相关的理解，探讨了等待如何在某些情况下产生抵抗。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，包括民族志观察和对国内流离失所者和国家官员进行的 120 次采访，以探讨等待哥伦比亚国内流离失所者流离失所经历的重要性。与那些认为这种等待鼓励被动的人相反，这篇文章借鉴了对波哥大境内流离失所者长达两年的占领的讨论，认为占领参与者在参与之前所面临的漫长等待有助于促进职业。等待在两个主要方面促成了占领：将一群本来不会见面的人聚集在一起，如果他们不是被迫在近距离呆在一起的时间很长，并且构成了激发占领的主要挫折来源。