Temporal Belongings Research Network

尽管时间经常被认为是一种客观和不可改变的力量，我们生活在其中，但社会科学和人文科学的工作认为，对时间的共同理解会干预社会生活，塑造包容和排斥的社会方法，理解变化如何发生，谁可以做出改变，以及过去和未来如何与现在相关。这表明，对于那些有兴趣了解社区的可能性和动态的人来说，分析和探索时间在社会进程中的作用至关重要。这个项目是在两个互联社区范围研究中开发的工作的基础上进行的，这些研究最直接地探索了时间和社区，由Bastian和Siebers领导，旨在以各种方式为辩论做出贡献。首先，通过在两个研讨会和一个住宿会议中探索一些问题，这些问题在范围界定研究和第一次时间归属研讨会（2011年6月20日至21日，曼彻斯特大学）中被确定为关键交叉主题。这些活动将利用非传统的参与性促进方法，以支持跨学科和学术/非学术联系的发展。将探讨的具体问题是：“动员社区未来，还是我们可以/应该/必须放弃希望？”';“时间方法-探索参与，学术和政策的时间性”;和“权力，时间和机构-探索关键时间的作用”。第二，该项目将通过开发新的资源，帮助确定如何在社区研究和非学术部门的范围内探讨与时间有关的问题，从而促进关于时间和社区的工作。这将包括与学术研究人员和非HEI组织代表的访谈。第三，通过建立一个更强大的学术和非HEI合作伙伴网络，支持这一研究领域的进一步发展。该项目将支持更好地理解日常生活中最理所当然的方面之一如何以各种方式塑造社区的经验和理解。它还将探讨我们如何批判性地参与这些理解，以及我们是否以及如何发展对时间性的其他理解，以便更充分地应对社会生活的复杂性。

Despite time often being experienced as an objective and unchangeable force within which we live our lives, work across the social sciences and humanities argues that shared understandings of time intervene into social life, shaping social methods of inclusion and exclusion, understandings of how change happens and who can make change, as well as accounts of how the past and future relate to the present. This suggests that, for those interested in understanding the possibilities and dynamics of community, it is crucial to analyse and explore the role of time in social processes. This project follows on from work developed in the two Connected Communities scoping studies that most directly explored time and community, led by Bastian and Siebers, and aims to contribute to the debate in a wide range of ways. First, by exploring a number issues that were identified as key cross cutting themes in the scoping studies and at the first Temporal Belongings workshop (20-21 June, 2011 University of Manchester) in two workshops and one residential conference. These events will utilise non-traditional methods of participatory facilitation in order to support the development of cross-disciplinary and academic/non-academic links. The particular issues to be explored will be; 'Mobilising Community Futures, or can/should/must we do away with hope?'; 'Temporal methods - Exploring the temporalities of engagement, academia and policy'; and 'Power, Time and Agency - Exploring the role of critical temporalities'. Second, the project will contribute to the work on time and community by developing new resources that will help to identify how issues to do with time are being explored in the context of community research and non-academic sectors. This will include interviews with academic researchers and representatives of non-HEI organisations. And third, by developing a stronger network of academic and non-HEI partners who can support the futher development of this research area.The project will support better understandings of how one of the most taken for granted aspects of daily life comes to shape experiences and understandings of community in a variety of ways. It will also explore how we can engage critically with these understandings and whether and how we might want to develop other understandings of temporality in order to respond more adequately to the complexity of social life.