Undisciplined

Reclaiming the Right to Imagine

Melz Owusu

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Polity Press
08 November 2024

Sociology & anthropology

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.

By: Melz Owusu
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781509556359
ISBN 10: 1509556354
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 08 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine

""Coming from an undisciplined scholar who has been in the movement, Undisciplined offers a wide-ranging contribution that implores us to think and read differently."" Remi Joseph-Salisbury, author of Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism ""Undisciplined 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. Undisciplined may move and support you in ways you did not know you needed. This book is a crystallizing opening and a freeing force that I will turn to time and time again."" Francesca Sobande, co-editor of To Exist is to Resist ""A meditative, lyrical work, at once personal and expansive, Undisciplined 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."" Rianna Walcott, Founder of Project Myopia