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Toward Dissent
Accessing Political Struggle Across the Americas
Matthew Edwards (Author)
9781487576011
Hardback, published 9 June 2026
324 pages, 26 illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.58 kg
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.
Introduction: Accessing Dissent Chapter 1: Touching Archives: Feminist Pedagogies of Antifascism in the Southern Cone Chapter 2: Molecular Notes: Chronicle of a Revolution (Santiago, Chile. December 2019) Chapter 3: Community Care Work: Radical Relational Responses to Carceral Violence Chapter 4: Politics with a Mouth, Theory with an Asshole: Where Does Anthropophagic Queerness Meet Liberal Politics? Chapter 5: Strategies of Dissent and the Global Trajectories of Difference Chapter 6: Decolonizing Maricas: Bolivian Marginal Masculinity in the Age of Evo Morales Chapter 7: High on the Tide: Archive and Feminist Avant-Garde: Actions of the Ni Una Menos Collective 2015–2019 Chapter 8: Translation Is/as Activism Chapter 9: Moving Past Toxic Masculinity: Yunior’s Maturation in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Chapter 10: Desmaquilladas: The Borders of Femininity Between Resistance and Movement Chapter 11: Interview: Constanza Valdés, Chilean Activist and Trans Woman 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)
Matthew J. Edwards
Carl Fischer
Jorge Díaz
Translated by Sergio Rueda
jade Kai
Joseph Jay Sosa
Matthew J. Edwards
José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
Cecilia Palmeiro
Translated by Fernando Sdrigotti
Lisa Dillman
Joanna Falk
Anastasia Valecce
Translated by Conor Harris
Pedro Reyes Garcia
Translated by Sergio Rueda
David Francis