Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition

Christopher Stone is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Course Leader in Deaf Studies and Interpreting at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His publications include Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights (with Robert Adam, Steven Collins and Melanie Metzger [eds.], 2014).Lorraine Leeson is Professor of Deaf Studies at the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Her publications include Sign Language in Action (with Jemima Napier, 2016), Irish Sign Language (with John I. Saeed, 2012), Working with the Deaf Community (with Myriam Vermeerbergen [eds.], 2012), and Signed Language Interpreting (with Svenja Wurm and Myriam Vermeerbergen [eds.], 2011).

• Foreword [Michael Cronin]Part I: Political contexts and colonialism1. Interpreting and its politics: Interpreters in the early Sino-British contacts in the eighteenth and nineteenth century [Binhua Wang and Fang Tang]2. Deaf stirrings in Surinam [Beppie van den Bogaerde and Adde Woest]3. "A President for all of the Irish": Performing Irishness in an interpreted inaugural presidential speech [Lorraine Leeson, Miranda Stewart, Casey Ferrara, Ivy Bostock, Peter Nilsson and Marlon Cooper]Part II: Politics of ethics and power4. Interpreter provision, medical training and ethics [Mary Phelan]5. The application of ethics within situated action [Ilana Rozanes] 6. Consumers, colleagues, and certification: Exploring the politics of interpreting [Jeremy Brunson] Part III: Politics of practice and representation 7. Variation in perception of the identity of interpreted Deaf lecturers [Stephanie Feyne]8. Deaf/non-deaf interpreter teams: Canadian insights on the complexity of professional practice [Debra Russell]

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