Episode 3: The Power of Clocks and Calendars

Episode Title:   
The Power of Clocks and Calendars

Hosts and Guests
• Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland)
• Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK)
• Michelle Bastian (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Summary
In this episode, Michelle Bastian, a leading scholar in the field of critical time studies, reflects with Michel and Keri on how timekeeping plays a critical role in the way we think and act in relation to environmental issues. Together, they discuss how clocks contribute to power dynamics and social injustices, and what it takes - individually and collectively - to envision, live through, and regulate the plural temporalities and rhythms that shape life on Earth.

References & Resources Mentioned
• Husserl, Bergson and Heidegger (on philosophy of time)
• Kevin Birth’s book ‘Object of time’ (how the objects we use to think about time shape our thought process)
• Michelle Bastian’s book chapter ‘Liberating Clocks: Exploring other possible futures’: http://www.michellebastian.net/upload...
• Scott Bremer and Arjan Wardekker edited book ‘Changing Seasonality’
• Scott Thrift (Designer): https://thepresent.is/
• Theresa M. Crimmins’s book ‘Phenology’

External Links
• The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/p...
• Sunkhronos Institute: https://www.sunkhronos.org/
• The Temporal Imagination: https://www.temporalimagination.org

The Temporal Imagination Podcast is supported by
• British Academy “The Times of a Just Transition” Global Convening Programme
• Sunkhronos Institute
• The School of Education, University of Bristol
• The Sarchi Chair in Global Change and Social Learning, Rhodes University

Credits
• Hosts: Michel Alhadeff-Jones & Keri Facer
• Audio/video editing: Sarah Van Borek, Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Keri Facer
• Artwork: Harriet Hand
• Music: Briony Greenhill, “Die Every Day” 
• Recorded and edited with Riverside.fm and Adobe Premiere