Translation for Social Justice: Concepts, Policies and Practices across Modalities and Contexts

Call for Abstracts & Papers (in English, Spanish, French and German)   Guest editors Julie Boéri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) Ting Guo, University of Liverpool (UK) LANS-TTS Issue 23, publication year 2024   Linguistica Antverpiensa LANS-TTS is an international, open access journal in translation studies publishing yearly special issues. The transnational nature of contemporary movements, media and networks in our globalized

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Prince Harry: early leaks came from a Spanish translation, causing confusion about what was really said

  By Caroline Summers, University of Leeds The Conversation, 26 January 2023   Eight days before Prince Harry’s memoir Spare hit shelves elsewhere, copies went on sale prematurely in Spain. Over the next few days the UK media, scrambled to acquire Spanish copies of the book, having been unable to get English versions for themselves. Their reporting on the story was

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The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and Argentina

      This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis   At the heart of the controversy over abortion rights are disagreements about key democratic concepts such as rights, autonomy, privacy and freedom, making the right to abortion one of the most contested in the world. MEDRA explores the

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There’s no official French version of the 1867 Constitution Act. So is taking the oath to the King in French valid?

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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Translation and History: A Textbook

  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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Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation

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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Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae

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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In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a Free Palestine

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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Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

Edited by Mona Baker Copyright Year 2022 ISBN 9780367681968 268 Pages 18 Illustrations Will be available open access in June 2022 This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas,

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