Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and time periods. This landmark work reflects Baker's influence on translation studies and serves both students and established scholars.
Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies. The 11 original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have developed enduring personal, professional, and intellectual connections with Baker through her teaching and research.
The chapters are framed by a reflective introduction, and clustered into three inter-related sections: "Trajectories and concepts", "Narratives and corpora", and "Activism and solidarity", which together map the routes and approaches that characterize Baker’s oeuvre. Individual chapters offer studies on topics ranging from literary translation, knowledge translation, journalistic translation, and museum translation to political and aspirational translation. Studies are situated in diverse temporal and geographical environments, extending from the seventeenth-century Low Countries to present-day Palestine. Chapters resonate with each other through critical scholarly engagement with the history, discourse, and politics of translation, and through a shared interest in the significance of the stories we tell each other and ourselves.
Relevant for students new to translation and interpreting studies as well as established and emerging scholars more familiar with the field’s contours, Contesting Translation is a landmark contribution to a dynamic discipline that has itself been significantly shaped by one of its most forthright and creative scholars.
Arvustused
Contesting Translation is a well deserved tribute to a most impressive and inspiring academic career, but beyond that it is a strong testimony to the depth and breadth of contemporary translation studies and the global and inter-generational conversations that nourish it.
-ebnem Susam-Saraeva, Personal Chair of Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh
"This collection is a meaningful tribute to Mona Bakers dedication to research, teaching, and fostering community within and beyond the boundaries of translation studies. It brings together colleagues whose work has been influenced by her probing insight and unwavering commitment to global justice. Her legacy will continue to inspire scholars and impact ideas for generations."
-Moira Inghilleri, Professor and Director of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
List of Figures
List of Contributors
1. Framing Baker: A partial portrait
Neil Sadler, Sue-Ann Harding, and Jan Buts
Part I: Trajectories and concepts
2. From style, through ethics, to the political: a journey with Mona Baker
Gabriela Saldanha
3. Mona Bakers intellectual contributions to a theory of translation as a
social, cultural, and epistemological phenomenon
Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi
4. Conceptual narratives of knowledge translation and epistemicide: between
translation studies and the cultural history of science
John Ødemark
Part II: Narratives and corpora
5. Intertextual narrativity and the translation of knowledge in the science
museum: the case of extinction and climate change
Robert Neather
6. Networked narrative: The dedications of the Jesuit translator Franciscus
de Smidt
Theo Hermans
7. Of heroes and terrorists. Narratives, categorization, corpora, and
translation
Federico Zanettin
8. How different are Chinese translations of political discourse by ChatGPT
and by human translators? A case study of explicitation as a translation
universal
Tao Li
9. Power, biopolitics, and womens bodies: A corpus-based study of texts
about womens reproductive health and their Korean translations
Kyung Hye Kim
Part III: Activism and solidarity
10. Name the narrator: examining literary translators as visible activists
for translation
Caroline Summers
11. Sit-down comedy and writing back to authoritative religious discourse in
Egyptian digital citizen media
Randa Aboubakr
12. "Aspirational" and "prefigurative translation" reconciled: revisiting the
time, space, and language of solidarity in the global justice movement
Julie Boéri
Jan Buts is Associate Professor at the Sustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo.
Sue-Ann Harding is Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queens University Belfast.
Neil Sadler is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Leeds.
