Toward Dissent
Accessing Political Struggle Across the Americas
Will be published approx. on 9. June 2026
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-1-4875-7601-1 (ISBN)
Description
Global circuits and local pathways are shaped by the needs of our bodies - both as individuals and as societies - and reflect our access to resources, networks, ideas, and knowledge. Toward Dissent highlights the paths forged through resistance and defiance. It examines how differences travel across regions through small editions, sound bites, news clippings, and translations; how research on revolution transforms our methodologies, encouraging participatory and subjective approaches; and how access to resources, communities, and ideas shapes the ways we understand, write about, and document sociopolitical struggles across the Americas.
In this book, Matthew J. Edwards combines traditional essays with shorter, more experimental texts such as manifestos, personal vignettes, interviews, and chronicles. Together, these pieces explore the circulation of ideas, objects, and cultural artifacts across the Americas, showing that while movement is essential for resisting oppression and enacting political change, our access to archives, information, and social networks determines how we engage with communities, and experiences, and how we document and understand political struggles.
This volume situates critical inquiry alongside ideological affinity and activism, arguing that political movements not only initiate social change but impact and influence the observations and critical processes that work to communicate their outcomes.
In this book, Matthew J. Edwards combines traditional essays with shorter, more experimental texts such as manifestos, personal vignettes, interviews, and chronicles. Together, these pieces explore the circulation of ideas, objects, and cultural artifacts across the Americas, showing that while movement is essential for resisting oppression and enacting political change, our access to archives, information, and social networks determines how we engage with communities, and experiences, and how we document and understand political struggles.
This volume situates critical inquiry alongside ideological affinity and activism, arguing that political movements not only initiate social change but impact and influence the observations and critical processes that work to communicate their outcomes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
26 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-7601-1 (9781487576011)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Matthew J. Edwards is an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
Content
Introduction: Accessing Dissent
Matthew J. Edwards
Chapter 1: Touching Archives: Feminist Pedagogies of Antifascism in the Southern Cone
Carl Fischer
Chapter 2: Molecular Notes: Chronicle of a Revolution (Santiago, Chile. December 2019)
Jorge Diaz
Translated by Sergio Rueda
Chapter 3: Community Care Work: Radical Relational Responses to Carceral Violence
jade Kai
Chapter 4: Politics with a Mouth, Theory with an Asshole: Where Does Anthropophagic Queerness Meet Liberal Politics?
Joseph Jay Sosa
Chapter 5: Strategies of Dissent and the Global Trajectories of Difference
Matthew J. Edwards
Chapter 6: Decolonizing Maricas: Bolivian Marginal Masculinity in the Age of Evo Morales
Jose Carlos Diaz Zanelli
Chapter 7: High on the Tide: Archive and Feminist Avant-Garde: Actions of the Ni Una Menos Collective 2015-2019
Cecilia Palmeiro
Translated by Fernando Sdrigotti
Chapter 8: Translation Is/as Activism
Lisa Dillman
Chapter 9: Moving Past Toxic Masculinity: Yunior's Maturation in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Joanna Falk
Chapter 10: Desmaquilladas: The Borders of Femininity Between Resistance and Movement
Anastasia Valecce
Translated by Conor Harris
Chapter 11: Interview: Constanza Valdes, Chilean Activist and Trans Woman
Pedro Reyes Garcia
Translated by Sergio Rueda
Chapter 12: Acoustic Poetics of Memory, Freedom, and Captivity on the Border in Central American Film: A Case Study of Sound in Ishtar Yasin's El Camino (2007)
David Francis
Matthew J. Edwards
Chapter 1: Touching Archives: Feminist Pedagogies of Antifascism in the Southern Cone
Carl Fischer
Chapter 2: Molecular Notes: Chronicle of a Revolution (Santiago, Chile. December 2019)
Jorge Diaz
Translated by Sergio Rueda
Chapter 3: Community Care Work: Radical Relational Responses to Carceral Violence
jade Kai
Chapter 4: Politics with a Mouth, Theory with an Asshole: Where Does Anthropophagic Queerness Meet Liberal Politics?
Joseph Jay Sosa
Chapter 5: Strategies of Dissent and the Global Trajectories of Difference
Matthew J. Edwards
Chapter 6: Decolonizing Maricas: Bolivian Marginal Masculinity in the Age of Evo Morales
Jose Carlos Diaz Zanelli
Chapter 7: High on the Tide: Archive and Feminist Avant-Garde: Actions of the Ni Una Menos Collective 2015-2019
Cecilia Palmeiro
Translated by Fernando Sdrigotti
Chapter 8: Translation Is/as Activism
Lisa Dillman
Chapter 9: Moving Past Toxic Masculinity: Yunior's Maturation in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Joanna Falk
Chapter 10: Desmaquilladas: The Borders of Femininity Between Resistance and Movement
Anastasia Valecce
Translated by Conor Harris
Chapter 11: Interview: Constanza Valdes, Chilean Activist and Trans Woman
Pedro Reyes Garcia
Translated by Sergio Rueda
Chapter 12: Acoustic Poetics of Memory, Freedom, and Captivity on the Border in Central American Film: A Case Study of Sound in Ishtar Yasin's El Camino (2007)
David Francis