Interlingual relations : global politics in a polyglot world / edited by Mauro José Caraccioli & Einar Wigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caraccioli, Mauro José.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and international relations.

Translating and interpreting--Political aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Translators--Political aspects.

Translators.

International relations--Languages.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Global politics in a polyglot world

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR's history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between "high" politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface | Iver B. Neumann

Introduction: Global Politics in a Polyglot World | Mauro José Caraccioli and Einar Wigen

Section I: Translation (and) Theory

Chapter 1. The Interlingual Configurations of International Politics | Einar Wigen

Chapter 2. Translation and Explanation | Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

Chapter 3. The Hidden Politics of Translation: On Interpreters' and Translators' Agency in International Relations | Anatoly Reshetnikov

Section II: Translation (and) History

Chapter 4. Interlingual Relations in a Persianate International Order | Alireza Shams-Lahijani

Chapter 5. Translation Power: Rethinking the Evolution of the International System with Insights from Sino-Tibetan Relations Surrounding the 1914 Simla Convention | Amanda J. Cheney

Chapter 6. Transversing Civilizational Hierarchies? The Introduction of the Latin Alphabet in Turkey | Senem Ayıin-Düzgit and Bahar Rumelili

Chapter 7. Historias for the Empire: Indigenous Translators and the Reproductions of Linguistic Conquest | Mauro José Caraccioli

Chapter 8. Kidnap Yourself a Translator: The Social Embedding of Translation in First Encounters | Julia Costa Lopez

Section III: Translation (and) Order

Chapter 9. Morgenthau in Translation: On Languages, Academic Environments, and the Making of International Relations in the United States and Germany | Filipe dos Reis and Oliver Kessler

Chapter 10. Constructing Incommensurables: Hebrew's Machiavellian Moment | Daniel J. Levine

Chapter 11. Interlingual Politics of Linguistic Choice | Jelena Subotic

Chapter 12. "The Most Important People Here Are Not Us-It's Those Translators": The Hidden Labor of Afghan and Iraqi Local Interpreters | Sara de Jong.

Chapter 13. Interlingual Relations and the Limits of Hegemony: US Public Diplomacy in the Arab World, 2002-2003 | Jane Darby Menton

Conclusion | Einar Wigen and Mauro José Caraccioli

Index.

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ISBN:

0-472-90548-1

9780472905485

OCLC:

1526551985