Undisciplined

Reclaiming the Right to Imagine
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5636-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

Undisciplined is an odyssey into possibility. Challenging us to break free from limiting strictures and structures, it encourages readers to envision just futures and reflect on the inner transformation required to become the custodians of those worlds.

In a profound and heartfelt offering, Melz Owusu delves into the stifling impact of the education system on imagination. They probe alternative, deeply spiritual connections to knowledge, and the pursuit of new ways of being as acts of remembrance of a common past. Seamlessly transitioning between intellectual discourse, personal reflections, and spiritual contemplations, Melz navigates the ‘undisciplining’ of mind and spirit, guiding readers towards the healing and liberatory potential of the heart and the imagination.

Undisciplined is not a prescriptive manual but an invitation. Freedom takes many forms, and this book is intended as one route of exploration: a mind-opening and perspective-shifting appraisal of how we might imagine a more just and liberated world, and the path to accessing its beauty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owusu, Melz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Undisciplined
2. The Undisciplined Embodied
3. Disciplining Knowledge
4. A Note to the Self
5. A Spiritual Intervention
6. Knowledge, Discipline(s), and the University
7. Identity and the Possible
8. Trans(cendent) Epistemologies
9. A Praxis of Imagining: Learning to Love
10. Acts of Remembering
Playlist / Outro

Über Autor(innen)

Melz Owusu is a PhD Researcher at the University of Cambridge and an Independent Thinker.