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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

8. Social Movements and Translation

Author : Nicole Doerr

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Abstract

Translation is at the heart of activities of social movements and practices of protest and political mobilisation. This chapter explores activists as translators mediating social, political, and cultural change. Inspired by students of international relations, comparative literature, migration, culture, and gender, the chapter shows how activists in different parts of the world address cultural diversity, structural inequality, and linguistic differences in order to translate their ideas and visions of political and social change. Focusing on grassroots democracy in social movements, the chapter traces the empirical practices of critical, dialogical, as well as disruptive political translation by which activists communicate social change to diverse audiences, multilingual constituencies, and specific target groups.

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Footnotes
1
Interview with a Berlin-based queer feminist activist, May 14, 2018.
 
2
Name changed.
 
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Metadata
Title
Social Movements and Translation
Author
Nicole Doerr
Copyright Year
2021
Book
The Politics of Translation in International Relations

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-56885-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-56886-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56886-3_8