PREFIGURING ALTERNATIVE WORLDS: ORGANIC CRITICAL LITERACIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS
PREFIGURING ALTERNATIVE WORLDS: ORGANIC CRITICAL LITERACIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a vision of critical literacies that speak to education, revolution and the institutional arrangements of capitalism. We provide a path forward for educating within/against neoliberalism and for understanding the imperative to prefigure spaces and a language of possibility. Our aim is to situate the need for critical spaces in revolutionary struggles, and to delineate a theoretical framing of organic critical literacies while grounding them in generative exemplars. Drawing upon the concept of prefigurative politics, we demonstrate how mediation and place-based praxis must be at the core of critical literacies that challenge capitalism and its institutional arrangements, and that are generative of socio-cultural revolutions.

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