"A critical contribution of this book is that it extends beyond protest to the tracking of texts and meanings across time and space. Given the abundance of protest movements around the world, documenting the emergence and trajectory of a sequence of protest is a valuable contribution to literacy educators. While scholars have discussed the circulation of texts for decades, there are few clear examples of textual tracking. Duncan, has brilliantly provided an exemplar in this book.
What might be questioned, revealed, recognized, and accomplished by applying ethnographic methods to track textual trajectories across literacy scholarship, within and across communities, and in relation to various educational institutions? These questions point to the significance of Duncans book and its contribution to the field."
-- Catherine Compton-Lilly, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA
"Duncan makes a major contribution to the ethnographic record on communicative practices that may have the appearance of being "micro," but which, in fact, carry within themselves a large potential for collective and interested social action.
The analytical and empirical attention to activities situated in time and space and broader social and political processes, is one of the main merits of Duncans monograph. His study on literacy in protests organized by residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro will certainly interest, in addition to linguists, educators, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, historians and political scientists interested in Brazil, social movements, and protests. Besides, the books detailed rendition of Brazils recent political and social historyincluding its elegant and jargon-free narration of practices of dissent and protest in the peripheries of a global citywill likely be of interest for the public at large."
-- Daniel N. Silva, Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
