Category: Articles

Can You Hear Us? Interpreters and Detainee Welfare in Immigration Removal Centres

Articles, Translation

By Aisha Maniar, One Small Window 23 September 2018 The United Kingdom has one of the largest immigration detention estates in Europe. While detention is punitive in nature, the measure itself is administrative and not criminal, for the non-offence of not holding a British passport. In 2017, 27,331 foreign nationals entered the detention estate (immigration removal centres and prisons). Over 5300 European Union

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What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

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ARUNDHATI ROY ON THE COMPLEX, SHIFTING POLITICS OF LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION IN INDIA By  Arundhati Roy The following is Arundhati Roy’s W. G. Sebald Lecture on Literary Translation, commissioned by the British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing. It was delivered at the British Library on June 5, 2018. At a book reading in Kolkata, about a week

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Samah Selim: Translator’s Introduction to Arwa Salih’s The Stillborn

Articles, Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Arwa Salih. The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student Movement Generation in Egypt. Trans. Samah Selim. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, Forthcoming 2017. Translator’s Introduction[1] Arwa Salih was an Egyptian communist who came of political age in the early 1970s; in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the end of the Nasser era, and the

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Omar Robert Hamilton in Testimony between History and Memory

Articles, Omar Robert Hamilton, Translating Dissent, Translation

A reprint of Omar Robert Hamilton’s article in Translating Dissent, ‘Moments of Clarity’, has appeared in the dossier on Translating Testimony in the October 2016 issue of the international journal of the Auschwitz Foundation, Testimony between History and Memory (issue No. 123). Hamilton in Testimony and MemoryThe dossier also features a French version of the article (‘Des moments de lucidité’), translated by Carine Chauran. Hamilton French

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The Global Imaginary of Arab Hip Hop: A case study

Articles, Citizen Media, Music, Translation

Stefania Taviano Im@go: A Journal of Social Imaginary, Volume 7, 2016     DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7413/22818138066 Abstract Hip Hop is a complex cultural and musical phenomenon resulting from the interactions between globalization and localization processes. Hip Hop artists operating in different locations – and often moving between multiple localities – appropriate and (re)interpret the genre on the basis of local musical and

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Translation Histories and Digital Futures

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By Karin Littau International Journal of Communication, Volume 10, 2016 Abstract: Drawing on Latour’s actor-network-theory and De Landa’s robot historian, this essay asks in what ways translation’s past is a prehistory of the present and to what extent nonhuman agents have shaped and are shaping translation. In particular, it examines the impact of computational media on translation and finds that the

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Translation in Activism and Cyber-Nationalism in China

Articles, Citizen Media, Translation

First to Germany, then Adults Written by Guobin Yang, 22 September 2016 China Policy Institute: Analysis On January 20, 2016, young nationalists in the PRC, now nicknamed Little Pink, launched an “expedition” from the popular Baidu message board “Diba” to the Facebook page of Taiwan’s newly elected president Tsai Ing-wen. They posted large numbers of emojis, called “emoji packs” (biaoqing

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Arwa Salih's The Premature: Gendering the History of the Egyptian Left

Articles, Articles, Egypt, Translation

By Hanan Hammed This article examines the intellectual legacy of the Egyptian Marxist Arwa Salih (1953-97) in order to trace an intimate history of the Egyptian left. Gender relations among comrades have underpinned the movement that has enveloped women’s rights in the folds of national and class struggles. In her short life, Salih was a veteran underground activist and, from

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Politics and enlightenment: Kant and Derrida on cosmopolitan responsibility

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DOI: 10.1080/13621029808420679 Ross Abbinnett Citizenship Studies, Volume 2, Number 2, 1998, pages 197-222 Abstract Abstract Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into

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