Published works include academic publications and podcasts relevant to the temporal imaginaion.

How do our habits of living and working with time shape us and our societies? Can we play and work with time differently to make a better world? Join hosts Professor Keri Facer and Dr Michel Alhadeff-Jones as they bring together world-leading researchers and academics from six continents to explore how rethinking the ways we think with, work with and live in time could be the key to unlocking more liveable futures for people and planet.

The Temporal Imagination podcast series has been developed as part of the British Academy The Times of a Just Transition Global Convening Programme.

Podcast series: Temporal Imagination

Rethinking the Times and Rhythms of a Just Transition

Hosts Michel Alhadeff-Jones and Keri Facer introduce the series.

Beyond Development, Pluriversal Temporalities

Arturo Escobar (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 

The Power of Clocks and Calendars

Michelle Bastian (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Time Talk, Narratives and the End of the World

Nomi Claire Lazar (Professor of Politics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada)

Andy Hom (Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK)

The Times of Water

Peter De Souza (formerly Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), at Goa University and Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)

Miriam Jensen (Researcher, Aalborg University)

Harriet Hand (Senior researcher, University of Bristol) 

Rhythms of the City and Environmental Transitions

Bronwen Morgan (Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Zarina Patel (Associate Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town) 

Indigenous Times and Temporalities

Frida Buhre (is Sami and Swedish, Assistant Professor in Literature and Rhetoric, University of Uppsala, Norway)

Catherine Dussault (is a member of the Wendat First nation and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada)

Matthew Scobie (is Ngāi Tahu and Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAITAHA)

Time and the Arts, Food and Colonialism

Rukmini Nair (Honorary Professor of Linguistics and English, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University, Londo) 

Nomusa Makhubu (Professor in Art History at the University of Cape Town; Founder of Creative Knowledge Resources)

Caring for the Rhythms of Food Sovereignty

Sidney Muhangi (Early Career Researcher and postdoctoral scholar, ELRC, Rhodes University, South Africa)

Daniela de Fex-Wolf (Biologist and Geographer, Early Career Researcher, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Columbia)

Temporal Resistances

Alison Oldfield (Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of BRistol)

Heila Sisitka (Distinguished Research Chair, Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa) 

Astrid Ulloa (Professor of Anthropology, National University of Colombia)

Imagining and Embodying Low-Carbon Futures

Daniel Barber (Professor of History of Architecture, Eindhoven University of Technology) 

Johannes Stripple (Associate Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden) 

Academic publications

Here are some of our academic publications, relevant to this topic and to the wider field of creating liveable futures.

For a full list of all our work, see links on about page.

Facer, K (2024) Educating the Temporal Imagination: Teaching time for justice in a warming world, Educational Philosophy and Theory https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2378086

Facer, K (2023) Possibility and the Temporal Imagination, Possibility Studies and Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27538699231171797

Facer, K and Sprague, T (2024) Educational future and futures in education, in R.Poli (eds) Handbook of Futures, Springer

Pykett, J., Facer, K., Valladares Celis, C., (2025) Flying Carpets and Disaster Rooms: Speculative immersive environments in Museums of the Future, Futures (Futures, in press)

Facer, K (2022) Imagination and the Future University: Beyond Critique and Desire, Critical Times  5:1 DOI 10.1215/26410478-9536559

Facer, K., Siebers, J., Smith, B (2021) Working with Time in Qualitative Research: Case Studies, Theoretical Resources and Methods, London: Routledge

Lewandowsky, S., Facer, K., Eller, U (2021) Losses, Hopes and Expectations for Sustainable Futures after Covid, Nature: Humanities and Social Science Communications, doi: 10.1057/s41599-021-00961-0

Facer, K (2019) Storytelling in Troubled Times: what is the role of educators in the deep crises of the 21st Century, Literacy, 53 (1) 3-13