Adam Burgos is assistant professor of philosophy at Bucknell University, USA.

• About the EditorAbout the ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contestations and the Unmaking of Politics (Adam Burgos, Bucknell University, USA)Section 1: Contesting Contestation Chapter 1: Freedom as Ontological Resistance: An Existential Account of Frederick Douglass’ Fight with Covey (Charles Des Portes, University of Leeds, UK)Chapter 2:Marginalia on Militant Democracy, (Un)Civil Disobedience, and the Right to Resistance (Eraldo Souza dos Santos, University of California, Irvine, USA)Section 2: Contesting PracticesChapter 3:Health Empires Behind Bars: Carceral Humanism and the Rise of Correctional Medicine (Andrea Pitts, University of Buffalo, USA)Chapter 4:Injustice, Infrastructure, and Contestation in Health (Takunda Matose, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA)Chapter 5:The Idea of Latin American Refugees and Understanding the Moral Force of Their Asylum Claims (Eric Bayruns García McMaster University, Canada)Chapter 6:The Israeli Black Panthers, Darhe Jesarim, and Collective Responsibility for Intra-Jewish White Supremacy (Geoff Adelsberg, Edgewood College, USA)Section 3: Contesting Concepts Chapter 7:Dystopia and Countermemory, Decolonial and Afropessimist: Approximations from Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso and Saidiya Hartman (Rocío Zambrana, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)Chapter 8:Unmasking the Coloniality of Whiteness: Law and Mexican American Racialization(Sabeen Ahmed, Swarthmore College, USA and Sergio Gallegos-Ordorica, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA)