By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents social movements and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize perform and disseminate protest. Researching Protest Literacies presents a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research to analyse how traditional and technology-driven literacy practices informed a new cycle of social protest in favelas from 2006-2016. Chapters trace nuanced interactions document changing power balances and in doing so conceptualize five forms of literacy used to enact social change - campaigning literacies memorial literacies media-activist literacies arts-activist literacies and demonstration literacies. Building on these the study posits protest literacies as a new way of researching the role of contemporary literacy in protest. This insightful monograph would be of interest to doctoral students researchers and scholars involved in the fields of literacy studies arts education and social movement studies as well as those looking into research methods in education and international literacies more broadly. . Language: English