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Phenomenological asymmetries in Welsh translation history
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This paper takes as its point of departure a phenomenological historiography of suffering with reference to Welsh as a non-state language. It argues that a phenomenologically informed historical methodology can help to support the preserv...
Publication · May 26, 2026
The crooked timber of self-reflexivity: Translation and ideology in the end times
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We need to start looking at translational phenomena from an intensely self-reflexive and ethical-ideological viewpoint. We are caught in a (post-)neoliberal world order in which capitalist values become an ever more deeply engrained and u...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Translation and Hegemonic Knowledge under Advanced Capitalism
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Translation occurs in a context of power asymmetries. Using two English translations of Adorno’s seminal Ästhetische Theorie as an example, this paper elaborates an eclectic phenomenology of power structured alongside three symbolic image...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Towards a Transgressionist Approach: Critical-Reflexive Translator Education
Publication · May 26, 2026
Political and ideological translation practice: Italian and English extracts of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
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Our research analyses two short unauthorised translations of extracts that were prepared by the respective Foreign Offices of the UK and Italy – the two countries Hitler had indicated as his potential allies against France – in the midst ...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Political Discourse Analysis in a Multilingual World
This evaluative chapter considers the discursive, textual and translational dimensions of Christina Schäffner's scholarly work, with the intention to inspire and generate ideas for future research. This chapter emphasises three elements in particu...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Adorno refracted: German critical theory in the neoliberal world order
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno’s oeuvre has been widely translated into English, and despite an uneven reception history in the Anglophone world, he can be regarded as a “fashionable”, perhaps even a “celebrity” philosopher in English transla...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Welcome to the Translation Machine! Translation Labour in Times of Techno-Triumphalism
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The advances and promises of digital translation technologies, largely spurred by AI-based neural machine translation, have led to unprecedented productivity in professional translation workflows. As conventional critical analysis has it,...
Publication · May 26, 2026
Field Experiments on Health and the Built Environment in Urban Settings: A Scoping Review
Publication · May 26, 2026
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