Temporal Belongings Research Network

尽管时间通常被视为我们生活中客观且不可改变的力量，但社会科学和人文学科的研究认为，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，对变化如何发生以及谁可以做出改变的理解，以及过去和未来如何与现在联系起来的解释。这表明，对于那些对理解社区的可能性和动态感兴趣的人来说，分析和探索时间在社会过程中的作用至关重要。该项目延续了由Bastian和Siebers领导的两个连接社区范围研究中所开展的工作，这两个研究最直接地探讨了时间和社区，旨在以广泛的方式为辩论做出贡献。首先，通过探索在范围研究和第一届时间财产研讨会（2011年6月20日至21日，曼彻斯特大学）中确定为关键交叉主题的一些问题，包括两个研讨会和一个住宅会议。这些活动将采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。将探讨的具体问题将是；“动员社区未来，还是我们能/应该/必须放弃希望？”“时间方法——探索接触、学术和政策的时间性”；以及“权力、时间和代理——探索关键时间性的作用”。其次，该项目将通过开发新的资源来促进时间和社区的工作，这些资源将有助于确定如何在社区研究和非学术部门的背景下探索与时间有关的问题。这将包括采访学术研究人员和非高等教育机构的代表。第三，发展更强大的学术和非高等教育机构合作伙伴网络，以支持这一研究领域的进一步发展。该项目将有助于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经验和对社区的理解。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其他对暂时性的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.