Ethics of activist translation and interpreting

Boéri, Julie; Luchner, Carmen Delgado

doi:10.4324/9781003127970-19

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“…It has been used across translational contexts but also to account for practitioners' engagement with the polity in and beyond translation. In interpreting, Boéri (Boéri, 2008(Boéri, , 2010(Boéri, , 2014(Boéri, , 2015a(Boéri, , 2023a(Boéri, , 2023bBoéri and De Manuel Jerez, 2011) has drawn on this framework to account for the constellation of narratives shaping the field of enquiry and practice, its internal power dynamics and its entrenchment in the mainstream.…”

Section: Socio-narrative and Practice Theories Explainedmentioning

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“…Ethnographies of interpreters communities have shown that the profession's mainstream narratives often fail to do justice to interpreters' heterogeneous experiences resulting from the multiplicity of social contexts and labour markets where they operate (Boéri, 2023b). The profession has generally prioritized the recognition of a uniform category among key stakeholders, in supra-national, diplomatic and business contexts, and to a lesser extent in public services such as hospitals, schools and courts, as a result of increased migration and mobility (García-Beyaert, 2015).…”

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Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic

Boéri

Giustini

2023

Qualitative Research

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This paper develops and applies a methodology of qualitative inquiry that equips researchers to capture how social actors produce and contest accepted forms of knowledge at the margins of mainstream globalizing discourses in times of crisis. Standing at the intersection between conceptual and empirical research, our methodology builds on the common epistemological premises of ‘narrative’, as stories constructed and enacted in social life, and ‘practice’, as tasks and projects composed by ‘doings’ and ‘sayings’. Overcoming the dualism between ‘action’ and ‘discourse’ in traditional social theory, this methodology integrates narrative theory and practice theory into a joint framework for fieldwork and interviews. The use of the narrative-practice methodology in ethnographic case studies – such as interpreters’ experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar – allows researchers to gain analytical granularity on participants’ storied practice and practiced stories of the crisis, to harness ‘peripheral’ knowledge and refashion public discourse.

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Section: Socio-narrative and Practice Theories Explainedmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic

Boéri

Giustini

2023

Qualitative Research

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“…In their survey of Soviet-inspired translation principles, Baer and Schäffner (2021, p. 53) ask, "To what extent can a translator working under socialism be compared to an activist translator?". And when we look at the ideals of the National Translation Program, where all is subordinate to the one national cause, we do indeed find a rhetoric of engagement and commitment quite close to that expounded in the name of activist translation and interpreting (see for example Boéri & Maier, 2010;Boéri & Delgado Luchner, 2021), which similarly rejects the cooperation model (apparently on the mistaken belief that cooperation presupposes neutrality). One might not be too surprised to find a nationalist translation program, a country-specific inventory and activist translators becoming natural allies.…”

Section: Some Non-western Nationalismsmentioning

confidence: 66%

On Recent Nationalisms in Translation Studies

Pym

2021

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If the intercultural were ever neatly opposed to the national as a frame for translational action and thought, then it would seem to be losing. Nationalist frames have gained new-found energy in various forms: translation is seen a weapon because nation-states support and manipulate it (Sapiro), the ethical aim of translation is to advance one’s national interests and priorities (Ren and Gao), and each country’s “translation capacity” can be quantified and ranked on a league table of competing nations (BFSU). Translators thus become foot-soldiers in battles to gain prestige on the world stage. Such manifestations of nationalism appear to run counter to the causes of intercultural positions and the ethics of cooperative communication between unequal parties. The need for translation nevertheless now lies more urgently in the culturally and linguistically diverse communities within and across national borders, where successful social inclusion is inseparable from the use of translation not as a weapon, but as a means of cooperation. 논문초록: 번역행위 및 사고의 프레임으로서의 상호문화주의가 민족주의와 대척점에 있는 개념이라면, 지금 상호문화주의는 민족주의에 기세가 밀리고 있는 것으로 보일 것이다. 민족주의 프레임은 다양한 형태로 새로운 동력을 얻고 있으며, 번역은 그 무기로 인식된다. 민족국가에서 번역을 지원하고 조작(Sapiro)하고 있고, 국가의 이익과 우선순위를 증진하는 것이 번역의 윤리적 목적(Ren and Gao)이며, 서로 경쟁하는 국가들의 리그 순위표 상에서 각국의 ‘번역능력(translation capacity)’을 계량화·순위화(BFSU)할 수 있기 때문이다. 이에 따라 번역사는 세계 무대에서 명성을 얻기 위한 전투에서 보병 역할을 하게 되었다. 이러한 민족주의의 발현은 상호문화주의적 입장의 대의, 그리고 불평등한 세력 사이의 협력적 소통의 윤리에 배치되는 것으로 보인다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 오늘날 각국의 국경 안팎에 자리한 문화적·언어적으로 다양한 공동체에서 번역의 필요성은 더욱 시급해지고 있다. 이들 공동체에서 사회적 포용의 성공 여부는 번역의 활용과 불가분의 관계를 가지며, 이때 번역은 무기가 아닌 협력의 수단으로 기능한다.

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“…However, as many have argued, interpreters cannot, nor should they be expected to, remain entirely invisible. The dilemmas of invisibility in interpreting are reflected broadly in discussions and debates within translation and interpreting studies (Baker, 2018;Boéri & Delgado Luchner, 2021;Koskinen, 2000;Venuti, 1995Venuti, /2018Venuti, , 1998. Specifically within community interpreting, the notion of an invisible interpreter is interrogated by Angelelli (2003) who notes that the visibility of interpreters, their very self, cannot be ignored or blocked in interpreted interactions.…”

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First Nations interpreters cannot be neutral and should not be invisible

Rusho

2023

The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Resea

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In this article I explore the challenges faced by First Nations language interpreters working in Australia’s justice system in relation to the explicit requirement of impartiality/neutrality and the implicit expectation of invisibility in their day-to-day work. I interrogate the notion of (in)visibility and explore its potential to contribute to the marginalisation of First Nations interpreters in legal settings and beyond. In particular, I focus on the relationship between impartiality/neutrality and the visibility of First Nations interpreters. I argue that while impartiality is a stance that can be consciously adopted by professional interpreters, complete neutrality is an impossible and unfair requirement given how neutrality can be impacted by kinship relations, historical racial politics, community expectations, and the power differentials inherent to the justice system. The data analysed are drawn from fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2019 in the Katherine region of Australia’s Northern Territory. The data include field notes, court observations, as well as interviews with First Nations language interpreters, legal professionals, and judicial officers.

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Ethics of activist translation and interpreting

Cited by 8 publications

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Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic

Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic

On Recent Nationalisms in Translation Studies

First Nations interpreters cannot be neutral and should not be invisible

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