ABSTRACT

This article examines the future as a technique of government aimed at controlling young people’s relationships to the present. It analyses the futures deemed feasible in a school located in a border area affected by the Colombian armed conflict. Based on ethnographic data collected primarily between 2013 and 2014, this study highlights the future’s regulatory nature and the types of commitments it seeks to generate in students. By examining the ideas and practices that align students’ horizons with state needs, this research reveals the tensions between an institutionalised future packaged as a rural entrepreneurship project and students’ aspirations for geographical and social mobility.

摘要

本文将未来视为一种旨在控制年轻人与现在的关系的政府技术。它分析了位于受哥伦比亚武装冲突影响的边境地区的一所学校认为可行的未来。根据主要在 2013 年至 2014 年间收集的民族志数据，本研究强调了未来的监管性质以及它试图在学生中产生的承诺类型。通过研究使学生的视野与国家需求保持一致的想法和实践，本研究揭示了包装为农村创业项目的制度化未来与学生对地理和社会流动的愿望之间的紧张关系。