Volume 6, Issue 3: December 2009

Lost (and found) in Translation

Natasha Marhia, Maria do Mar Pereira, and Christina Scharff

The special issue draws on existing debates across social science disciplines which have attempted to disrupt the dominant framing of issues of language difference and translation as methodological footnotes, and have demonstrated that an ongoing, reflexive and nuanced engagement with these issues can provide crucial analytical insight, both about our objects of study, and the practices of knowledge production and dissemination that we are involved in... [read more]

INDEX [PDF]

EDITORIAL

Maria do Mar Pereira, Natasha Marhia and Christina Scharff

Interrogating Language Difference and Translation in Social Science Research: Towards a Critical and Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. 1-12 [PDF]

ARTICLES

• Bogusia Temple

  Translation: the construction and representation of people’s lives, pp. 13-19 [PDF]

• Angeliki Alvanoudi

  Travelling between languages and disciplines: linguistic and interdisciplinary translation practices in Women’s/Gender Studies, pp. 20-39 [PDF]

• Simon Hutta

  Translation in excess: engaging semiotics and the untranslatable, pp. 40-62 [PDF]

• Annabel Tremlett

  Claims of ‘knowing’ in ethnography: realising anti-essentialism through a critical reflection on language acquisition in fieldwork, pp. 63-85 [PDF]

• Alison Stern Perez and Yishai Tobin

  Difficulties of translation from Israeli Hebrew to American English: An analysis of pronouns and power relations in interviews with bus drivers who experienced terror attacks, pp. 86-107 [PDF]

• Lisa Ficklin and Briony Jones

  Deciphering ‘Voice’ from ‘Words’: Interpreting Translation Practices in the Field, pp. 108-130 [PDF]

RESEARCH NOTES

• Suzette Martin-Johnson

  Translating a troubled return: Comparative fieldwork on deportees in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, pp. 131-141 [PDF]

BOOK REVIEWS

• Temple, B. (2004-2009) Representing the Translator: Making Sense of Translation in Cross-Language Qualitative Research. A Review of Bogusia Temple’s Recent Investigations in Research and Translation by Yevgeniya Traps (pp. 142-147) [PDF]

• Cronin, M. (2009) Translation Goes to the Movies. Book review by Liza Tripp (pp. 148- 153 [PDF]

• Simon, S. (2006) Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City. Book review by Nora Koller (pp. 154-158) [PDF]