{"product_id":"undisciplined-reclaiming-the-right-to-imagine-hardback-9781509556359","title":"Undisciplined; Reclaiming the Right to Imagine (Hardback) 9781509556359","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReclaiming the Right to Imagine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelz Owusu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509556359, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Coming from an undisciplined scholar who has been in the movement, \u003ci\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging contribution that implores us to think and read differently.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRemi Joseph-Salisbury, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnti-Racist Scholar-Activism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/i\u003e is both an intimate invitation and a vivid journey towards and with freedom. Melz Owusu offers rousing reflections on movement work and the alchemy of imagination, love, and action that makes meaningful forms of change and knowing possible. This vital book includes crucial insights and offerings related to the heart and soul, learning and remembering, philosophy and spirituality, and the material and immaterial makings of another world. \u003ci\u003eUndisciplined \u003c\/i\u003emay move and support you in ways you did not know you needed\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e This book is a crystallizing opening and a freeing force that I will turn to time and time again.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Sobande, co-editor of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo Exist is to Resist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A meditative, lyrical work, at once personal and expansive, \u003ci\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/i\u003e is as relevant to the individual as it is to the (anti-)institutional. Owusu encourages us to be and think outside of the strictures of our current possibilities in favour of a belief in, and commitment to, making the intentions and dreams of the marginalized tangible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRianna Walcott, Founder of Project Myopia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUndisciplined\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Undisciplined\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Undisciplined Embodied\u003cbr\u003e 3. Disciplining Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Note to the Self\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Spiritual Intervention\u003cbr\u003e 6. Knowledge, Discipline(s), and the University\u003cbr\u003e 7. Identity and the Possible\u003cbr\u003e 8. Trans(cendent) Epistemologies\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Praxis of Imagining: Learning to Love\u003cbr\u003e 10. 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