Temporalities In and Of Research: Cases From an Afterschool Documentary Filmmaking Program

Abstract

This symposium centers on time and temporality, which when viewed as cultural, carry a social and political dimension. In particular, we question colonial assumptions about time and propose new conceptions of temporality that allow us to expand what we see as learning, and how we see it unfold. What are the temporalities that emerge from and are imposed on communities engaged in learning? We take up a temporality lens that (1) unpacks elements of practice and identity that are obscured by placing all participants and communities in a shared framework of settler time, and (2) draws out the subjective temporalities of the event that are produced by participants in interaction. The three papers, from a study of an afterschool documentary filmmaking program, consider “slow” temporalities of learning in this setting as well as how “slowing down” research practices decolonize assumptions of settler time in marginalized spaces.