Resisting State Terror: Theorizing Communities of Activist Translators and Interpreters

Abstract

Since its inception, translation studies has arguably situated itself within structures of authority 1 and continues to describe the role of translation largely from the point of view of dominant groups and constituencies. 2 This s particularly evident in frameworks such as skopos theory, which prioritizes the role of the commissioner in a typically affluent industrial setting, and norm theory, which privileges mainstream values as realized in sanctioned, repeated patterns of behaviour. It is also evident in the overwhelming attention given to dominant Western and European communities in theorizing translation, notably Venuti’s focus on the Anglo-American context and feminist theorizing in North America. Where translation scholars have adopted the perspective of the colonized or of resistant groups in society, this has largely been in the context of historical studies, with temporal distance ensuring that no ’spillage’ of risk or serious political controversy can contaminate the orderly world of scholarly research. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 77 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.