Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Notes
• References
• Part I: Translation and society
• 1 Translation and identity
• Introduction
• The discursive explosion of identity
• Critical issues and debates
• Identity and translation in the age of strangeness
• An example
• Notes
• References
• 2 Translation and transformation
• Introduction
• Two sociological approaches to metamorphosis
• Metamorphosis and/of knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries
• Translation and metamorphosis: a universal practice of the concrete
• Notes
• References
• 3 For a translational sociology
• Introduction
• Translation questions simplistic views of cultural homogenisation
• Translation avoids idealism by focusing on the materiality of language
• Translation is ordinary
• Translation underpins the production and circulation of sociological knowledge
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part II: Translation and politics
• 4 Politics of translation
• Note
• References
• 5 Translating democracy
• Introduction
• The language of democracy
• The monolingual vision: a critique
• Cosmopolitanism, linguistic hospitality and translation
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 6 The translator as producer
• Introduction
• Moving authors and readers, home and abroad
• Interdisciplinary approaches to translation as transformation
• Politicising translation
• Assimilatory and reflexive translation: an outline
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Part III Translation and experience
• 7 Translation and modernity: Benjamin’s Baudelaire
• Introduction
• Translating Baudelaire: articulating the task of translation
• Interpreting Baudelaire: the experience of modernity
• Recovering a philological attitude
• Notes
• References
• 8 Translating strangers
• Introduction
• Strangers in the midst of generalised strangeness
• The significance of the cosmopolitan stranger
• The interpreting stranger: Cesar Millan
• The stranger as ventriloquist: Tania Head
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 9 Homecoming: an auto-analysis
• Homecoming as an unfinished project
• On becoming a cultural sociologist in Glasgow
• The end of homecoming
• Notes
• References
• Conclusion: translation and reflexivity
• References
• General bibliography
• Index