Rhiannon Firth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhiannon Firth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhiannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Firth |
| SIGNATURE | FIRTH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3280-0147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Utopianism and Intentional Communities
Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics
In 2018
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State
Author Rizwaan Sabir, as a then-MA student at Nottingham University, became known as one-half of the “Nottingham Two” following his arrest along with Hicham Yezza in May 2008. They were detained for six days without charge on suspicion of terrorism for the possession of a document titled the Al Qaeda Training Manual, which was freely available on the internet and from bookstores. Sabir had downloaded it from a US government website for use as pri…
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action
Robotopias: Mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology
Purpose This paper maps utopian theories of technological change. The focus is on debates surrounding emerging industrial technologies which contribute to making the relationship between humans and machines more symbiotic and entangled, such as robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a map to navigate complex debates on the potential for technology to be used for emancipatory purposes and to plot the grounds for ta…
For a revival of feminist consciousness-raising: Horizontal transformation of epistemologies and transgression of neoliberal TimeSpace
This paper looks back on the methodology and experience of feminist consciousness-raising (CR) in the 1970s, in relation to the current re-emergence of feminism. It constructs an argument that a new wave of CR is desirable so as to construct new forms of feminist pedagogy and activism. The paper will argue that contemporary feminism in the UK and USA would benefit from this kind of methodology, through which a standpoint is constructed. The core …
For the past yet to come: Utopian conceptions of time and becoming
This article examines a number of critical-theoretical, utopian alternatives to the dominant temporal conception of 'homogeneous empty time'. It explores the ways in which difference is theorized within the field of time, and the ways in which relations to the past and future can be constructed non-sequentially. It focuses on four related theories. Nietzsche's theory of eternal return is shown to be inspired by a critique of backward-looking view…
Toward a Critical Utopian and Pedagogical Methodology
This paper seeks to develop a methodology suitable for identifying and conceptualizing the pedagogical aspects of utopian communities and autonomous social movements that engage in prefigurative political practices. The paper describes ‘critical utopianism’ as an approach to social change that is anti- rather than counter-hegemonic and has affinities with epistemological and political anarchism. In practice, critical utopias include a range of sp…
Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly lacking in solutions, positing a utopian articulation of citizenship focused on community participation at a grassroots level. By re-examining central…
Transgressing urban utopanism: Autonomy and Active Desire
It has been extensively argued by theorists of liberal globalization as well as by radical theorists such as situationists and anarchists that as the site of the concentration of capital, the city is the primary site for the formation of new subjectivities, new rights‐claiming practices and the intensification of resistance as the starting point for an alternative, inclusionary urban citizenship. This article contends that by dismissing or separa…
For the past yet to come: Utopian conceptions of time and becoming
This article examines a number of critical-theoretical, utopian alternatives to the dominant temporal conception of 'homogeneous empty time'. It explores the ways in which difference is theorized within the field of time, and the ways in which relations to the past and future can be constructed non-sequentially. It focuses on four related theories. Nietzsche's theory of eternal return is shown to be inspired by a critique of backward-looking view…
For a revival of feminist consciousness-raising: Horizontal transformation of epistemologies and transgression of neoliberal TimeSpace
This paper looks back on the methodology and experience of feminist consciousness-raising (CR) in the 1970s, in relation to the current re-emergence of feminism. It constructs an argument that a new wave of CR is desirable so as to construct new forms of feminist pedagogy and activism. The paper will argue that contemporary feminism in the UK and USA would benefit from this kind of methodology, through which a standpoint is constructed. The core …
Transgressing urban utopanism: Autonomy and Active Desire
It has been extensively argued by theorists of liberal globalization as well as by radical theorists such as situationists and anarchists that as the site of the concentration of capital, the city is the primary site for the formation of new subjectivities, new rights‐claiming practices and the intensification of resistance as the starting point for an alternative, inclusionary urban citizenship. This article contends that by dismissing or separa…
Toward a Critical Utopian and Pedagogical Methodology
This paper seeks to develop a methodology suitable for identifying and conceptualizing the pedagogical aspects of utopian communities and autonomous social movements that engage in prefigurative political practices. The paper describes ‘critical utopianism’ as an approach to social change that is anti- rather than counter-hegemonic and has affinities with epistemological and political anarchism. In practice, critical utopias include a range of sp…
Robotopias: Mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology
Purpose This paper maps utopian theories of technological change. The focus is on debates surrounding emerging industrial technologies which contribute to making the relationship between humans and machines more symbiotic and entangled, such as robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a map to navigate complex debates on the potential for technology to be used for emancipatory purposes and to plot the grounds for ta…
Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice
In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion and climate change, cynicism prevails in contemporary politics, which need not be the case. Utopian Politics confronts a world intensely aware of the problems that we face and sadly lacking in solutions, positing a utopian articulation of citizenship focused on community participation at a grassroots level. By re-examining central…
Transgressing urban utopanism: Autonomy and Active Desire
It has been extensively argued by theorists of liberal globalization as well as by radical theorists such as situationists and anarchists that as the site of the concentration of capital, the city is the primary site for the formation of new subjectivities, new rights‐claiming practices and the intensification of resistance as the starting point for an alternative, inclusionary urban citizenship. This article contends that by dismissing or separa…
Toward a Critical Utopian and Pedagogical Methodology
This paper seeks to develop a methodology suitable for identifying and conceptualizing the pedagogical aspects of utopian communities and autonomous social movements that engage in prefigurative political practices. The paper describes ‘critical utopianism’ as an approach to social change that is anti- rather than counter-hegemonic and has affinities with epistemological and political anarchism. In practice, critical utopias include a range of sp…
For the past yet to come: Utopian conceptions of time and becoming
This article examines a number of critical-theoretical, utopian alternatives to the dominant temporal conception of 'homogeneous empty time'. It explores the ways in which difference is theorized within the field of time, and the ways in which relations to the past and future can be constructed non-sequentially. It focuses on four related theories. Nietzsche's theory of eternal return is shown to be inspired by a critique of backward-looking view…
For a revival of feminist consciousness-raising: Horizontal transformation of epistemologies and transgression of neoliberal TimeSpace
This paper looks back on the methodology and experience of feminist consciousness-raising (CR) in the 1970s, in relation to the current re-emergence of feminism. It constructs an argument that a new wave of CR is desirable so as to construct new forms of feminist pedagogy and activism. The paper will argue that contemporary feminism in the UK and USA would benefit from this kind of methodology, through which a standpoint is constructed. The core …
Robotopias: Mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology
Purpose This paper maps utopian theories of technological change. The focus is on debates surrounding emerging industrial technologies which contribute to making the relationship between humans and machines more symbiotic and entangled, such as robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. The aim is to provide a map to navigate complex debates on the potential for technology to be used for emancipatory purposes and to plot the grounds for ta…
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State
Author Rizwaan Sabir, as a then-MA student at Nottingham University, became known as one-half of the “Nottingham Two” following his arrest along with Hicham Yezza in May 2008. They were detained for six days without charge on suspicion of terrorism for the possession of a document titled the Al Qaeda Training Manual, which was freely available on the internet and from bookstores. Sabir had downloaded it from a US government website for use as pri…
Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics
In 2018
Utopianism and Intentional Communities
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Utopia (3 works)