Insurgent Utopia

Ontological praxis and the reconfiguration of the social imaginary

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19477747
AutoresAlexandre Da Trindade (0000-0001-6040-5745, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Páginas1-15
Fecha de publicación2026-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2026.2673128
OpenAlexW7161811279
IdiomaEN
Referencias 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