Amid an unprecedented sense of global uncertainty, protest movements around the world are opening new horizons. This series, which was assembled before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, includes brief reflections on a number of protest movements that emerged or consolidated during the second half of 2019. Protest movements in, but not limited to, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile have put into question various forms of power and inequality. They offer us new and very different languages of justice, methodologies of political engagement, notions of citizenship, and pluralist, intersectional revisions of social contracts. By engaging with global protest movements that have garnered widespread “real world” media attention, this series attempts to explore how useful anthropology is in capturing the affectively intensive, dramatic, vital, performative, and friction-filled dimensions of the real world of protests.