Oppression is not a point of view
The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research In recent years, there has been a surge in publications addressing the political impact of translation and interpreting across a variety of locations and settings (Baker, 2016a and 2016b; Doerr, 2018; Evans and Fernández, 2018; Fernández, 2020a; Valdeón and Calafat, 2020; Tesseur, 2022, to name a few). In this context, this
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Published: December 1, 2022 9.39pm GMT Since the election of the first Parti Québécois legislators in 1970, controversy over Québec MNAs swearing an oath to the sovereign before taking their seats in the National Assembly has stirred emotion and sparked heated debate. PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon recently fuelled the controversy by stating loudly and clearly that he will
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Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor – (220002JO) Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: December 31, 2022 Applicants should (i) possess a relevant PhD degree in translation or other related fields; (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas:a) digital humanities (including corpus-based studies, psycholinguistics studies, and translation technology), b) interpreting studies, c) translation theory; and preferably (iii) have relevant teaching
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By Theo Hermans Copyright Year 2023 ISBN 9781138036987 Published July 7, 2022 by Routledge This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential concepts in researching and writing the history of translation and translation as history. Theo Hermans presents and explains fundamental issues and
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Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation. Personal Essays, Pen Transmission, 7 October 2020 Last year, I participated in a two-day conference, organised by ‘postcolonial intellectuals’, called ‘Intellectuals without Borders’. I presented on the ‘Whiteness of Postcolonial and Multicultural Literary Criticism’, intending to disrupt the very idea of the ‘borderless intellectual’. I sensed
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June 23, 2022 By Helen Mackreath, Los Angeles Review of Books IN THE WAKE of the intensifying resistance to the occupation of Palestine, the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States (and beyond), and such movements as #StandWithStandingRock, appeals for solidarity with the plight of migrants, occupied populations, racialized minorities, and Indigenous peoples have become culturally pervasive. This
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Edited By: Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil 2022, Routledge DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003258704 OPEN ACCESS This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object
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July 9, 2018| Peter Davies Proofed, Boydell & Brewer Blog Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s an idea that hit me quite hard when it occurred to me, and I resisted it for a
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Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker LSE Impact Blog, 25 May 2022 Rigorous empirical evidence is often presumed to be the most persuasive, notably in fields such as healthcare and medicine, where there are established frameworks for assessing the quality of evidence. In this post, Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker argue for the importance of narrative rationality, especially in areas
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Editorial By The Crimson Editorial Board April 29, 2022 When oppression strikes anywhere in the world, resistance movements reverberate globally. The desire for rightful justice spreads, like wildfire, moving us to act, to speak, to write, and right our past wrongs. Over the past year, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has strived to do just that. Amid escalating tensions
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