Overview

This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), revealing oppression in established institutional spaces toward challenging existing policies and the myths which inhibit critical inquiry within the field. ITI is broadly conceived here as translation and interpreting delivered in or for specific institutions, understood as social systems and spanning national, supranational, and international organizations as well as immigration detention centers, prisons, and national courts. The volume is organized around three parts, which explore ITI spaces and practices revealing oppressive practices, dispelling myths regarding translation and interpreting, and shedding light on institutional spaces that have remained invisible and hidden, and therefore underexplored. The chapters in this book vividly illustrate similarities and contrasts between the different contexts of ITI, revealing shared power dynamics that uphold social hierarchies. Throughout this comparison, the book makes a compelling case to consider the different contexts of ITI as equally contributing to actionable knowledge on how institutions shape translation and interpreting and how these are operated in sustaining such hierarchies. Offering a window into previously underexplored spaces and generating new lines of inquiry within ITI studies, this book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in translation and interpreting studies.

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""This volume could be regarded as a call to action, not only for the institutions themselves to pay proper attention to redressing these inadequacies, but also for further research into thecontrast between stated objectives and actual outcomes, stakeholders’ attitudes towards the delivery (and deliverers) of these services, and possible solutions to the problems and challenges identified."" - Holly Mikkelson, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, United States of America

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Esther Monzó-Nebot is an associate professor in translation and interpreting in the Department of Translation and Communication at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. María Lomeña-Galiano is an associate professor in translation studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at Université Rennes 2, France.

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