Oppression is not a point of view
With the support of the British Academy, in conjunction with the British Institute in Amman, the first of a series of workshops designed to build capacity among the younger generation of university academics in the region was held on 5-7 September 2011, and featured a surprise visit by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal. The initiative, launched by the Middle East
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A series of workshops designed to build capacity among the younger generation of university academics in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey was launched in 2011 by the Middle East and North Africa Panel (MENAP) of the British Academy. The initiative recognised that scholars in the region tend to have difficulty accessing information on the latest developments in the field.
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Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) May 21, 2020 Notes from the Field As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings from the government’s panel of scientific experts, argued
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An interview with the coordinators of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network Mona Baker, Shanghai International Studies University, China & University of Manchester, UK Jan Buts, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Henry Jones, Aston University, UK Interview by Zhao Wenjing, Zhengzhou Shengda University and Henan Normal University, and Yang Guosheng, Henan Polytechnic (1) Can you say something
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Barricade, a Journal of Antifascism and Translation SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 BY ANNEKE RAUTENBACH In a chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism, published over the summer, Turkish journalist and translator Ayşe Düzkan offers an anecdote: At a conference in Istanbul in 2014, she was tasked with providing a consecutive Turkish interpretation for one of the speakers, a British Marxian anthropologist. His
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Covering Note The Ethics of Volunteerism Attila Piróth and Mona Baker October 2019 Some background to our decision to publish this article independently is in order. First, neither of us is under pressure to publish at all. Attila is a professional translator whose career would hardly benefit from a scholarly publication, and may even be negatively impacted by
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Ahdaf Souief, London Review of Books Volume 7, No. 17, 3 October 1985 To download Arabic translation, by Abdelhamid Elewa, click here: Souief Golding Arabic translation An Egyptian Journal , by William Golding. Faber, 207 pp., £12.95, July 1985, 0 571 13593 5 About ten years ago, on a previous visit to Egypt, William Golding arrived at ‘a simple truth:
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Call for Chapter Proposals Editors: Gary Massey, David Katan and Elsa Huertas Barros Proposals should contain an abstract of approx. 500 words (not including references) with a minimum of five references and be sent to gary.massey@zhaw.ch. The deadline for submission is 31 October 2020. Submitters will be informed about the acceptance of their proposals by 15 December 2020. The advance
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Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 101 (2020) Cite this article Abstract This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.
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A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere Luis Pérez-González Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 92 (2020) Abstract Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of
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