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In this episode, Arturo Escobar - the grandfather of modern critiques of development theory and originator of the idea of pluriversal design - talks with Keri and Michel about the danger of allowing one time story to dominate, about his own relationship with time, what it means to face death and endings, and his new work exploring pluriversal temporalities in Cali, Colombia.
Hosts and Guests
• Keri Facer (Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol, UK)
• Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Executive Director, Sunkhronos Institute, Switzerland)
• Arturo Escobar (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Summary
In this episode, Arturo Escobar - the grandfather of modern critiques of development theory and originator of the idea of pluriversal design - talks with Keri and Michel about the danger of allowing one time story to dominate, about his own relationship with time, what it means to face death and endings, and his new work exploring pluriversal temporalities in Cali, Colombia.
References & Resources mentioned
• Ailton Krenak, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault (on failing to understand and confront death)
• Alfred N. Whitehead (on process philosophy)
• Arturo Escobar’s book is ‘Encountering Development: the making and unmaking of the third world • Bayo Akomolafe (on urgency and slowness)
• Ernst Block (on the ‘not yet’)
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (on notions of the virtual)
• Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA): https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/
• Henri Lefebvre (on rhythmanalysis and social critique)
• JK Gibson Graham (as resources for noticing abundance rather than reifying dominance)
• Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino (on paradoxical relationships with time)
• Kyle White, Zoe Todd, Eve Tuck (on co-eval time, co-existence of many times)
• Leanne Simpson’s book is ‘The Theory of Water’ • Martin Shaw (on being claimed by land)
• Quechua Aymara (Pachacuti concept of radical transformation)
• Sharon Stein (on matching solutions to diagnosis - see also the wider work of the Decolonial Futures Collective)
• Shimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short text & TED talk, “The Danger of a Single Story”
• Spinoza (on notion of immanence)
• Vandana Shiva’s book is ‘Monocultures of the Mind’
External Links
• The Times of a Just Transition - Global Convening Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/the-times-of-a-just-transition/
• 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: Keri Facer & Michel Alhadeff Jones
• 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
To watch the video recording of this podcast (which includes closed captions), go to: https://www.youtube.com/@institutsunkhronos/podcasts
