Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
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.
Recommended Citation
Zavala, M., & Golden, N.A. (2016). Prefiguring alternative worlds: Organic critical literacies and socio-cultural revolutions. Knowledge Cultures, 4(6), 207-227.
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Addleton Academic Publishers
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Comments
This article was originally published in Knowledge Cultures, volume 4, issue 6, in 2016.