Community Connectivities/Temporal Belongings: An interdisciplinary residential workshop
Organisers Dr Michelle Bastian, CRESC, University of Manchester
Professor Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
Date 20-21st June 2011
Location Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester
Confirmed Speakers Professor Carol Greenhouse (Princeton University)
Dr Nigel Clark (Open University)
Dr Justin Kenrick (PEDAL, University of Edinburgh, SASI)
Full list of Participants Available here
Programme Available here
To support the development of a more coordinated research approach to the interconnections between time and community, the Temporal Belongings project hosted an interdisciplinary residential workshop, to provide an opportunity for a broad range of researchers and community activists to explore how time is involved in producing, maintaining, complicating, destroying and/or disavowing the connectivities within and between communities.
The aims for the workshop included assessing what work has already been done, drawing out current and potential intersections, highlighting emerging trends, and identifying areas that may be under-researched. We also hoped to support the development of new work on this theme and we are currently discussing how to take the outcomes of the workshop further. You can see what we got up to here.
Format of the workshop
The residential workshop included just over 40 participants and took place over two days at the University of Manchester’s conference and hotel facility; Chancellors. In order to explore the breadth of approaches, and support new collaborations, the workshop included a variety of session formats. Along with a small number of longer papers, all participants presented 5 minute paper (or lightning talk) that responded to the workshop themes. There was also an Open Space session and a World Cafe session on Day Two, where themes emerging from the paper sessions were explored in greater depth. You can read more about these sessions here.
Emerging Themes
Participants were welcome to approach the theme in the way they thought was most thought-provoking, although we suggested a vareity of possible topics, as shown below below. Given that the workshop forms part of the initial agenda setting for the Connected Communities research programme we were also keen to respond to the five central themes which are envisioned as shaping the research programme and welcomed contributions that responded to them.
The five themes are:
Possible topics included:
Contact: Michelle Bastian (michelle.bastian@manchester.ac.uk), CRESC, University of Manchester
This workshop is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J501391/1).
Professor Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
Date 20-21st June 2011
Location Chancellors Conference Centre, University of Manchester
Confirmed Speakers Professor Carol Greenhouse (Princeton University)
Dr Nigel Clark (Open University)
Dr Justin Kenrick (PEDAL, University of Edinburgh, SASI)
Full list of Participants Available here
Programme Available here
To support the development of a more coordinated research approach to the interconnections between time and community, the Temporal Belongings project hosted an interdisciplinary residential workshop, to provide an opportunity for a broad range of researchers and community activists to explore how time is involved in producing, maintaining, complicating, destroying and/or disavowing the connectivities within and between communities.
The aims for the workshop included assessing what work has already been done, drawing out current and potential intersections, highlighting emerging trends, and identifying areas that may be under-researched. We also hoped to support the development of new work on this theme and we are currently discussing how to take the outcomes of the workshop further. You can see what we got up to here.
Format of the workshop
The residential workshop included just over 40 participants and took place over two days at the University of Manchester’s conference and hotel facility; Chancellors. In order to explore the breadth of approaches, and support new collaborations, the workshop included a variety of session formats. Along with a small number of longer papers, all participants presented 5 minute paper (or lightning talk) that responded to the workshop themes. There was also an Open Space session and a World Cafe session on Day Two, where themes emerging from the paper sessions were explored in greater depth. You can read more about these sessions here.
Emerging Themes
Participants were welcome to approach the theme in the way they thought was most thought-provoking, although we suggested a vareity of possible topics, as shown below below. Given that the workshop forms part of the initial agenda setting for the Connected Communities research programme we were also keen to respond to the five central themes which are envisioned as shaping the research programme and welcomed contributions that responded to them.
The five themes are:
- Community participation, self-reliance and resilience
- Community health and well-being
- Community regeneration and prosperity
- Sustainable community environments, places, spaces and institutions
- Community cultures, diversity and cohesion
Possible topics included:
- How changing experiences of time might be changing the nature of connectivity within and between communities.
- The temporality of varying accounts of ‘community’ including within continental philosophy, political philosophy, feminist theory, international relations theory, actor-network theory, anthropology, sociology, geography.
- Explorations of techniques of temporally isolating, distancing and/or misrecognising others.
- The role of time in legitimisation, universalisation and normalisation.
- Time as a tool of social co-ordination and/or as a method of managing social diversity.
- Time and communal agency/social change, including explorations of how different accounts of time might lead to different understandings of change, action, the future, or of the role of the past in the present.
- Queer temporalities and queer belonging
- Temporality of community in post-colonial and settler societies
- The temporality of ‘more-than-human’ communities
- Belonging in a time of climate change
- Role of temporality in the inclusion/exclusion of asylum seekers and immigrants from communities
- The implications the variety of nested and overlapping social times may have for social services, community activism, policy development and environmental work.
- Rethinking regeneration and prosperity in a time of resource depletion
- Exploring how time is involved in producing alternatives to notions of perpetual growth, such as steady state economics, free-economy movements, and voluntary simplicity movements
- Time and the City
- Temporality of technological change and its effects on connectivity and community
- Time, Community and Affective Belongings
- National identity and shared time/memory/history
Contact: Michelle Bastian (michelle.bastian@manchester.ac.uk), CRESC, University of Manchester
This workshop is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J501391/1).
