Out of the endeavour of some progressive social thinkers situated in the peripheral world, this article relates the transcultural phenomenon - conceived as the "other side" of the processual galaxy called globalization - and the production, actual and possible, of new utopias. Utopias resulted from the confrontation, contrast and interpenetration between forms of "Western" rationality and socio-cultural forms of the peripheral world, which create new modes of rationality based on transculturation. The article concludes that the new progressive elaborations of the South, the "Third World", where the transculturation process is more advanced, have potentially creative powers to better deal with the complex and large aspects of the modernization in the Age of Globalism.
Globalization; Transculturation; Center and Periphery; Utopia