Translating political geographies

Sidaway, James D.; Bunnell, Tim; Grundy‐Warr, Carl; Mohammad, Robina; Park, Bae‐Gyoon; Saito, Asato

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2004.05.001

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“…In short, critical geopolitics has not yet answered fully James Sidaway's (2003) call to address the question: ''How does the conflict relate, too, to the economic geography of the key commodity of oil? ''…”

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The radical geopolitics of US foreign policy: the 2003 Iraq War

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“…The focus of this part of the debate lies on publication practices as well as on the access of foreign language speakers to the international research world, which is generally equated with being an English language research world. The second issue deals with more practical concerns of 'language and translation' (Sidaway et al, 2004;Temple, 1997;Temple and Young, 2004;Müller, 2007). Here, the main emphasis lies on translation practices and the problems and possibilities thereof.…”

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Translating productively: texts, contexts and concepts

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2009

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Summary Summary Summary SummaryThis paper examines the role of language and translation in social science research with a focus on methodological issues. So far, these have received relatively little attention in publications on social science methodologies as well as in lively languagerelated debates in human geography journals of recent years. The lack of methodological concern is surprising, as there seems to be an increasing interest in international and comparative research and practice. However, the literature suggests that in order to draw out the political implications of translation, which are otherwise glossed over, it needs to go beyond transferring text from source language to target language as a seamless reproduction of the original. Like this, it becomes an issue of methodological concern. I therefore suggest approaching translation as a productive open-ended process that pays close attention to specificities of contexts and concepts and makes cultural difference visible throughout the research process. This approach aims at decentring taken-for-granted assumptions about the clarity of meaning in the source as well as in the target language. In reviewing the existing literature on issues of language, power and translation this paper builds on my experiences of doing a PhD as a foreign student in England.

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“…Two adjectives (modern/pre-modern) would equally serve the purpose -which is my aim here -of not reducing the 'bounded' to the linear boundaries of the modern state, thus ignoring other historical socio-spatial formations, in other geographical contexts as well (Sidaway et al, 2004), characterized by bounded political space.…”

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Rethinking territory

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2010

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This critical commentary engages, both methodologically and theoretically, the notion of territory as discussed by Stuart Elden (2010). Methodologically, I suggest that Elden’s philological concern with the term ‘territory’ rather than with the idea of ‘bounded political space’ risks producing a partial historical account. As a way to enlarge the scope of analysis and include also forms of ‘bounded political spaces’ which existed before, during, and after the emergence of modern territory, I propose a new theoretical category, ‘territorial’. This category reinstates the importance of ‘b-ordering’ practices, downgraded as second-order problem by Elden. Theoretically, the commentary also suggests the importance of ‘peopling’ territory, in order to bring social agency back in and avoiding treating modern territory as a mere terror(izing) tool. Prompted by Elden’s account, this piece aims to stimulate a ‘territory debate’.

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Translating political geographies

Cited by 30 publications

References 19 publications

The radical geopolitics of US foreign policy: the 2003 Iraq War

The radical geopolitics of US foreign policy: the 2003 Iraq War

Translating productively: texts, contexts and concepts

Rethinking territory

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