Working in highly diverse local sustainability struggles relating to land, cities, identities and the imagination - the project team will explore how temporal frames and narratives are being (mis)used to define climate problems and solutions, how timing mechanisms prioritise, coordinate and exclude different actors and ways of life, how different rhythms of life are being aligned or alienated, and how uses of time as a form of invisible power are structuring the possibilities for justice for communities in the Global South and marginalised North.

It is anticipated by researchers in the programme that increased awareness and understanding of these timing mechanisms will expand our political and civic capacities to detect sources of misalignment and miscommunication, lay new foundations for dialogue across difference, and open-up the possibility of a pluriversal politics.

One of the three South African projects - led by Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka, will explore ’Time for Justice’ and will explore the role of possibility knowledge(s) and time for meaning making in expansive learning processes in mediations of the Just Transition in the Eastern Cape. 

The Eastern Cape is an interesting space for researching Just Transitions with its multi-layered histories, and contemporary spaces where Just Transitions are / ought to be playing out i.e. in the energy sector, the food systems sector and in the transport sectors.  The first TimeLAB for this international group will be held in the Eastern Cape, at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in September this year. 

An exciting post-doctoral position is opening up within the framework of this project.