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Author:   Tobias Berger ,  Alejandro Esguerra
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367248116

ISBN 10:   0367248115
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Objects of Translation Part I: Concepts Good treason. Following actor-network theory to the realm of drug policy The travelling concept of organized crime and the stabilization of securitized international cooperation: a translational reading Part II: Instruments Translating the glucometer – from ""Western"" markets to Uganda: of glucometer graveyards, missing testing strips and the difficulties of patient care Rule of Law promotion in translation: Technologies of normative knowledge transfer in South Sudan’s constitution making Part III: Facts What is wrong with the United Nations? Cynicism and the problem of translating the facts Reflexivity, positionality and normativity in the ethnography of policy translation Part IV: Projects Europe in translation: Governance, integration, and the project Translation and the challenges of supranational integration: the common grammar and its dissent Part V: Expertise Faithful translation? Shifting the boundaries of the religious and the secular in the global climate change debate Translating for politico-epistemic authority. Comparing food safety agencies in Germany and in the UK Conclusion: Power, Relationality, and Difference"

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Examining the potent role of seemingly mundane objects, instruments, and facts in global politics, this volume makes a key contribution to our understanding of power, expertise and practice in the contemporary world. In these pages, it becomes clear just how powerful the concept of translation can be - enabling the contributors to both map the various ways in which people, objects and ideas can move from one space into another, and to recognize the slippages and tensions that can result. - Jacqueline Best, Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

""Examining the potent role of seemingly mundane objects, instruments, and facts in global politics, this volume makes a key contribution to our understanding of power, expertise and practice in the contemporary world. In these pages, it becomes clear just how powerful the concept of translation can be — enabling the contributors to both map the various ways in which people, objects and ideas can move from one space into another, and to recognize the slippages and tensions that can result."" – Jacqueline Best, Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Tobias Berger is Assistant Professor of Transnational Politics of the Global South at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Alejandro Esguerra is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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