Iñaki Sagardoy-Leuza

Visiting Scholar

Iñaki Sagardoy-Leuza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the Public University of Navarre. He completed his PhD in 2023 with the dissertation “Violencia, memoria y poder: una etnografía del campo anamnético-político en Navarra”, which examined questions of violence, memory, and power in the context of the Basque conflict through the lens of political anthropology. He is currently interested in welfare, humanitarianism, and the everyday production of the state, with particular attention to the practices and subjective experiences of social workers in contexts of institutional crisis.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.