Home
Latinoamericana
Toward Dissent

Toward Dissent

Name: Toward Dissent
Author: Matthew Edwards
ISBN: 9781487576011

Accessing Political Struggle Across the Americas

by Matthew Edwards

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Series: Latinoamericana

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

324 Pages, 159.00 × 235.00 × 23.00 mm, 26 illustrations

Hardcover
9781487576011
Published: June 2026

£56.00

Pre-Order

Description
Contents
Authors

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
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 Díaz
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
José Carlos Díaz 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 Díaz’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 Valdés, 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 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.