Oppression is not a point of view
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 10 November 2024 In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.
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Ahdaf Souief London Review of Books, 1 November 2024 On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a thousand writers (I am one of them) pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that are ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’ and have ‘never publicly recognised the inalienable rights of
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It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell By Stephen Buranyi The Guardian, 27 June 2017 In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most
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Gabriela Saldanha In: Corpus-based Studies across Humanities https://doi.org/10.1515/csh-2023-0013 OPEN ACCESS Abstract The concept of subjectification plays a key role in Foucault’s theory of governmentality and has been an important tool for the analysis of policy discourses, for example, in the form of Bacchi’s (2009. Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson Australia) ‘What’s
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Chinese University of Hong Kong Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: October 31, 2024 Established in 1972, the Department of Translation of CUHK was the first of its kind in Asia. After years of development, it now offers a full range of BA, MA, MPhil and PhD programmes. Our faculty members are committed to excellence in
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media is now available in paperback format. Edited By Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones, Luis Pérez-González Copyright 2021 ISBN 9780367544164 640 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations Published May 27, 2024 by Routledge This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and
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by Tadhg Mac Eoghain In order to survive as a freelance translator in today’s hostile climate, I’ve had to take a Jekyll and Hyde approach to my work. On the one hand, I very happily collaborate with a team of other like-minded, caring and politically driven translators as part of Guerrilla Media Collective (GMC), a feminist, commons-oriented, worker-owned translation and
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We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities. Al Jazeera, 29 May 2024 We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts
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