Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the type of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true.-Michel Foucault (1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. New York, Pantheon, p. 131.Introduction: Dissent and Negation as a Condition of DiscourseEverywhere the structures of repression of the dominant group against minorities, of racial, sexual and gender violence, of state totalitarianism against the citizen, engender sparks of dissidence that leads to a person, movement, literature, discourse or a form of scholarship that actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, law or institution to call out against unlawful violations of speech and rights. Dissident thought is that which takes place against conformism and consensus in the name of the good of society. It is a critical principle of science, politics and discourse. It may be an underground activity that exposes the secrets and the contradictions of governments and subjects fellow citizens to moral triage in opposing the unjust, often resulting in hardship, punishment, exile and imprisonment.The anthropology of dissidence can both theorize and document the struggles on the ground in totalitarian Soviet Russia, East Europe or China or against the cultural imperialism of the West through the diverse activities of politics, theatre, literature or poetry. It can also reflect on the nature of dissident thought as a form of public discourse and academic scholarship that is the consequence of outspoken public intellectuals who through their practice dissent and refus e the brutal and arbitrary application of power. Globalization has given birth to its own geographical and historical forms of protest, against free trade, against austerity, against tyrannical dictatorships, a gainst fina nce capita lism and the greed of Wall St that led to the Global Financial Crisis. These contemporary protests - the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, anti-capitalist rallies, anti-globalization mobilizations - have learned from and utilized new forms of protest and discourse of the first wave (the speech and student movements, the peace movement, Black civil rights and later the anti-Apartheid movement, the feminist and ga y movements) to broaden the politics of nonviolent protest to create imaginative public pedagogies (McKenna & Darder, 2011).Dissident thought has a kinship relationship with the ecology of concepts that proceed from the concepts of dissent and the very possibility of disagreement as an inherent aspect of discourse. It has taken many different forms in relation to discourse thought and action, and encompa ssed and cultivated political norms associated with freedom of speech that allows the expression of opposition, protest, revolt, and the expression of anti-establishment thought that takes the form of civil disobedience, non-violent protest and sometimes revolutionary activity. Often this opposition has taken the form of the metaphysics of negation brought back to life as an operating principle by Hegel but seen by some to be an intrinsic aspect of being and communication. Daniel Dahlstrom (2010) in his Presidential Addr ess to the Metaphysical Society of America, suggestsNegation is something that we do. It is typically a judgment that we make, a judgment that something is not the case, and it usually - albeit by no means exclusively - takes the form of a statement... Negations ... are commonplace, in our lives and in our grammar, and they may well be a distinctive feature of human communication. Almost two decades ago Jon Barwise made the observation: 'All human languages contain one or more mechanisms of a negative character; no animal communication does' (p. …