Rhiannon Firth

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Rhiannon Firth is a critical social theorist whose work bridges utopian studies, technology, and radical pedagogy. Her research interrogates how emerging industrial technologies—robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence—reshape human-machine relations, often through a utopian lens. In her widely cited paper "Robotopias: mapping utopian perspectives on new industrial technology" (2020, 8 citations), Firth maps competing utopian theories of technological change, challenging deterministic narratives and exploring how these technologies might foster more symbiotic, entangled futures. Beyond this, Firth is known for her contributions to anarchist and utopian thought, particularly in education. She co-edited the volume *The Anarchist Turn* and has written extensively on prefigurative politics and the role of utopian imagination in social movements. Her work appears in leading journals like *Utopian Studies* and *Anarchist Studies*, and she is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. With a growing citation footprint, Firth’s scholarship offers students and researchers a vital, critical framework for understanding technology not as a neutral tool, but as a site of political and utopian struggle.