Overview

This volume stages a series of radical provocations that seek to reorient the very conditions under which learning becomes thinkable. Refusing the redemptive pull of schooling as a salvageable public good, the collection foregrounds the necessity of undisciplining education, dislodging it from its colonial grammars, disciplinary enclosures, and anthropocentric imaginaries. Schools, far from neutral spaces of knowledge transmission, are infrastructural technologies of late capitalist governance: disciplining bodies, managing time, and sustaining the ongoing occupation of Indigenous lands under the guise of progress and order. Drawing from grotesque materialisms, Indigenous epistemologies, and speculative philosophies, the volume positions pluriversal indeterminacy as a generative ontological condition, contesting the closure-driven logics of Western educational taxonomy. If schools operate as entropy-displacement machines, maintaining systemic stability through the externalization of collapse, then what is required is not critique alone, but a methodological insurgency capable of abolishing education’s epistemic foundations. To this end, contributors—traversing anthropology, architecture, mathematics, biology, Indigenous studies, art, philosophy, and literature—articulate a constellation of non-disciplined pedagogical experiments that emerge from the current unraveling of education itself. Through deliberate acts of epistemic undoing, authors inhabit a space where fixed categories, such as human/nonhuman, past/future, knowledge/ignorance are rendered inoperative, making room for learning that reconfigures the possible.

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Author:   Dr Petra Mikulan (University of British Columbia, Canada) ,  Dr Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350528604

ISBN 10:   1350528609
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Petra Mikulan (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 1. A million ways to learn and be in the world, Adam Gaudry (University of Alberta, Canada) and Matt Hern (Solid State, Canada) 2. Education as Embassy: Pluriversal Pedagogies and Transknowledging, Lester-Irabinna Rigney (University of South Australia, Australia), Tyson Yunkaporta (Deakin University, Australia) and John Davis (Deakin University, Australia) 3. A school for the many ways of inhabiting: Educating pluriversal urban practitioners, Tomás Criado (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) 4. Student: an exploration into the seductive ‘we’ of learning, Adam Rudder (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA) 5. Subjects as Effects of Affects: A Pedagogy of the Senses, Andrej Radman (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) 6. Cultivating Nepantla: Learning to warrior-up in a place between worldviews, Daniel Gallardo (University of British Columbia, Canada) 7. Deep Play: Notes on Youth Baseball, Anthropology, and Learning as Investing, Suzanne Scheld (California State University, USA) 8. Speculative Provocations to Afrofuturism of Schooling and Learning, Lys Divine Ndemeye and Quentin VerCetty Lindsay (independent artists and designers) 9. Scenarios of technology enhancement, decolonial educational strategies and insurgent thinking, Marina Grzinic (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria) 101. Speculative and possible futures in postcolonial literature, Aparna Tar (York University, UK) Conclusion Index

Reviews

It is never enough to say, “long live the pluriverse!”. The pluriverse must be made. And it must be made endlessly, collectively unschooling our practices of imagination and unmaking the modern world at every turn. Teeming with insurgent ideas and speculative propositions, this thought-provoking book opens up multiple paths. -- Martin Savransky, Reader in Social and Environmental Thought, University of Bath, UK Unschooled Futures invites readers into the “pluriverse,” where learning is not a fixed path but a generative, unfinished process—one that studies with in a practice of mutual experimentation and refusal. In doing so, it invites us to linger in the unfinished, to see possibility in the mess, and to join in the ongoing work of reimagining learning otherwise. -- Marquis Bey, Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University, USA

It is never enough to say, “long live the pluriverse!”. The pluriverse must be made. And it must be made endlessly, collectively unschooling our practices of imagination and unmaking the modern world at every turn. Teeming with insurgent ideas and speculative propositions, this thought-provoking book opens up multiple paths. -- Martin Savransky, Reader in Social and Environmental Thought, University of Bath, UK

Author Information

Petra Mikulan teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she completed SSHRC and Killam funded postdoctoral fellowship. Nathalie Sinclair is Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is co-author of Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom (2014).

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