ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter of the book focuses on five points. Firstly, Chapter 10 discusses protest in one set of favelas named Maré and elaborates on how this can be understood as forming part of a ten year cycle of contentious politics in Rio de Janeiro from 2006–2016 concerning global events and local impacts on policing and housing. Secondly, empirical and theoretical findings are outlined relating to four overarching categories referred to previously throughout the book – protesting, literacies, trajectories, and technologies. Examples of literacies discussed herein include: campaigning literacies, memorial literacies, media-activist literacies, arts-activist literacies, demonstration literacies, and how all these can be seen converging in the mobilizing, performing, and disseminating of protest events – as a nexus of protest literacies. Thirdly, based upon these and other concepts discussed, Chapter 10 proposes a conceptual framework for Researching Protest Literacies. Fourthly, building on this, ways in which ethnographic and historical approaches to Literacy Studies contribute to Protest Studies and vice versa are highlighted. Then, lastly, bringing the book to its close, areas of focus for further research on protest literacies are put forward.
