{"product_id":"toward-dissent-accessing-political-struggle-across-the-americas-hardback-9781487576011","title":"Toward Dissent; Accessing Political Struggle Across the Americas (Hardback) 9781487576011","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eToward Dissent\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAccessing Political Struggle Across the Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Edwards (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487576011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 26 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal 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. \u003ci\u003eToward Dissent \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Accessing Dissent \u003cbr\u003eMatthew J. Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Touching Archives: Feminist Pedagogies of Antifascism in the Southern Cone\u003cbr\u003eCarl Fischer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Molecular Notes: Chronicle of a Revolution (Santiago, Chile. December 2019)\u003cbr\u003eJorge Díaz\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sergio Rueda\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Community Care Work: Radical Relational Responses to Carceral Violence\u003cbr\u003ejade Kai\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Politics with a Mouth, Theory with an Asshole: Where Does Anthropophagic Queerness Meet Liberal Politics?\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Jay Sosa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Strategies of Dissent and the Global Trajectories of Difference\u003cbr\u003eMatthew J. Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Decolonizing \u003ci\u003eMaricas\u003c\/i\u003e: Bolivian Marginal Masculinity in the Age of Evo Morales \u003cbr\u003eJosé Carlos Díaz Zanelli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: High on the Tide: Archive and Feminist Avant-Garde: Actions of the Ni Una Menos Collective 2015–2019 \u003cbr\u003eCecilia Palmeiro\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Fernando Sdrigotti\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Translation Is\/as Activism\u003cbr\u003eLisa Dillman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Moving Past Toxic Masculinity: Yunior’s Maturation in Junot Díaz’s \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJoanna Falk\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: \u003ci\u003eDesmaquilladas\u003c\/i\u003e: The Borders of Femininity Between Resistance and Movement\u003cbr\u003eAnastasia Valecce \u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Conor Harris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Interview: Constanza Valdés, Chilean Activist and Trans Woman\u003cbr\u003ePedro Reyes Garcia\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sergio Rueda\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Acoustic Poetics of Memory, Freedom, and Captivity on the Border in Central American Film: A Case Study of Sound in Ishtar Yasin’s \u003ci\u003eEl Camino \u003c\/i\u003e(2007)\u003cbr\u003eDavid Francis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599832838424,"sku":"9781487576011","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/toward-dissent-accessing-political-struggle-across-the-americas-hardback-9781487576011","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}