Ixesha [Time] for Justice
The IXHESA (Time) for Justice Project is a partnership project emerging from collaborations in the Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures programme, this time with support from a British Academy convening programme. The South African project within this wider convening network aims to surface possibility knowledge(s) in just transitionings, to further enrich our capabilities for T-learning.
The project forms part of a Time for Justice global convening programme that brings together scholars from six continents and 14 disciplines to transform our understanding of the role of time and timing in producing justice and injustice in sustainability transitions. The programme explores 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. One of the thematic areas in this project is ‘Temporality Pedagogies’ which are also T-learning processes.
Concretely, the South African IXHESA (Time) for Justice Project explores how considering time changes the way in which we can understand and look at (in)justices in different South African contexts through an analytical, co-generative and sensorial approach. To do so, it explores videomaking as a tool to visualise temporality concepts through the fields of Just Energy Transition, Water Justice and Gender, Rhythms and Music, and Languages. The videos produced aim to be used as reflexive materials for other scholars to engage with temporality concepts in their fields, and as resources for T-learning research schools.
The IXHESA for Justice project is coordinated by Rhodes University’s Environmental Learning Research Center, in collaboration with the Time for justice global programme, led by Bristol University and funded by the British Academy. A set of podcasts on the ‘Temporal Imagination’ have been produced from this programme by project leader Keri Facer and Michel Alhadeff-Jones, with RU researchers contributing to two of them.
Relevant links
British Academy Times of a Just Transition website
Podcast: Episode 9: Caring for the rhythms of food sovereignty