Globalization, Political Violence and Translation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349304603 ISBN 13: 9781349304608

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Written by leading scholars in a range of disciplines (from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies), this book provides key insights into the globalization of violence and the role of translation in this context, and includes detailed empirical analyses of media representations and translators' accounts.

About this title

Book Description:

This timely collection critically addresses post 9/11 issues of globalization and violence, ethics and violence, human rights, discourse and the media, ethics and translation

About the Author:

ANTONIO AGUILERA works at the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Barcelona, Spain EMILY APTER is Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA MONA BAKER is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK UPENDRA BAXI is Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, UK MOIRA INGHILLERI is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK LIAM KENNEDY is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland MARTIN MONTGOMERY is Reader in Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, UK STUART PRICE is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Production at De Montfort University, UK KEITH TESTER is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK MARIA TYMOCZKO is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusets Amherst, USA SIGRID WEIGEL is Director of Zentrum für Literaturforschung (Berlin) and a Professor at TU Berlin, Germany

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1349304603
• ISBN 13: 9781349304608
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271
• Editor: Bielsa E., Hughes C.