Insurgent Utopia

Ontological praxis and the reconfiguration of the social imaginary

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19477747
AutoresAlexandre Da Trindade (0000-0001-6040-5745, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2026
Páginas1-15
Data de publicação2026-05-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2026.2673128
OpenAlexW7161811279
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

This article advances insurgent utopia as a conceptual and methodological intervention that reclaims the radical core of utopian thought from within colonial modernity. Rejecting technocratic domestication and teleological abstraction, it foregrounds subaltern epistemic agency, framing utopia as situated praxis enacted through struggle. A critical genealogy is traced – from the classical pursuit of eudaimonia and More's negation of place, through Rousseau's civic pedagogy and Marx's dialectical horizon, to Bloch's ontology of the not-yet – situating insurgent utopia as an ontological surplus animating political imagination from below. Its most concrete elaboration lies in Latin American pedagogical traditions: in Freire's inédito viável and in the praxis of Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). The MST's educational and territorial praxis demonstrates this framework as a counter-hegemonic grammar that reconfigures time, pluralises futures and reclaims possibility

Control reconfiguration · Praxis · The Imaginary · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Marxism and Critical Theory · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction