Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of anticipation drawing on ethnographic research with non-elite young women who were alumni of a girls' empowerment intervention in New Delhi.

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非物质不稳定和预期的情感状态：印度城市非精英年轻女性的非政府组织来世

抱负在教育人类学中得到了极大的关注，但对抱负下的教育项目的必要性的影响（和影响）却没有得到充分的审查。本文认为，在物质堕落的背景下，抱负往往会产生非物质的不稳定，我将其列为预期的情感状态，这些预期来自新德里女孩赋权干预的非精英年轻女性的民族志研究。