March 2022, Mona Baker

How to make sense of medical evidence?

March 28, 2022 Mona Baker Rethinking Evidence

Read about our new book on evidence and COVID-19 In our forthcoming book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2022), we offer a theoretical framework that identifies and distinguishes different types of rationality – specifically scientific and narrative rationality – and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence in

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Translating Academia

March 18, 2022 Mona Baker Events, Translation

TRANSLATION AND SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP SERIES Translating Academia Friday, 3rd June 2022 Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i de Sociologia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona This international workshop is organised as part of the research project ‘Political Translation’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and is the first event of the ‘Translation and

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Sarah Carr Does Thomas Friedman

March 17, 2022 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements

Note: This piece by Sarah Carr was published during the early days of the Egyptian Revolution and posted on her blog. It is no longer available there, but the copy below can still be found on the Niqnaq blog. This is just the start and it never fucking ends Sarah Carr, Inanities, Mar 2 2011 After

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