Oppression is not a point of view
The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt By Sameh Hanna © 2016 – Routledge 240 pages, Hardback: ISBN: 978-1-13-880362-6, £90 This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu’s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that tests
» Read moreDOI: 10.1080/13556509.2015.1069042 Richard Jacquemond Published online: 14 Aug 2015 Abstract Through the example of the Arabic translations of Pierre Bourdieu, this article analyses the conditions of the introduction and reception of a sociological thought of French origin in the contemporary Arab intellectual field and, more generally, those of the international circulation of ideas in a postcolonial context. The diachronic analysis
» Read moreDOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2014.991277 Helen Colley & Frédérique Guéry Published in: Cambridge Journal of Education Volume 45, Issue 1, 2015 Special Issue: Evoking and Provoking Bourdieu in Educational Research pages 113-131 Abstract Public spending reductions across the advanced capitalist world are creating new professions that have a ‘hybrid’ status and/or role. However, research on professional learning has paid little attention to
» Read moreRadical Philosophy 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) David Charlston Most branches of philosophy and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studied in the anglophone academy draw on texts written in languages other than English and therefore rely on the products of translation, especially translations of historical, European philosophy. However, surprisingly little philosophical attention has been paid to the role
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