Positionalities of Translation Studies

Garda Elsherif is a Research Associate in the Department of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.Joanna Sobesto is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Polish in the Centre for Translation Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland.

• List of Figures List of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Positionalities of and Self-Reflexivity in Translation Studies, Garda Elsherif (University of Mainz, Germany) and Joanna Sobesto (Jagiellonian University, Poland)Part I: Reflections on the Positionalities of Translation Studies2. Feminist Positionalities in Translation Studies, Hilary Brown (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gabriela Saldanha (University of Warwick, UK)3. Translating Humans? Anthropocentrism and the Linguistic Borders of the Social World, Tomasz Rozmyslowicz (University of Mainz, Germany)4. Positionality of the Chinese School of Translation Studies: Academic Nationalism and Experiential Knowledge, Ye Tian (University of Manchester, UK)5. A French-Speaking Translation Studies Area: Under Influence? Yves Gambier (University of Turku, Finland)Part II: Writing the Histories of Translation Studies6. “This Is Not a Translators’ Union”: The Vereniging Nederandse Vertalingen (1932-1950) and the Dutch Translation Scene in the Pre-Holmes Era, Gaëtan Regniers (Ghent University, Belgium)7. Translation Studies in Iran: Practice, Training and Research, Farzaneh Farahzad (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran)8. Volodymyr Derzhavyn: An Erased Translation Scholar of the Late 1920s-Early 1930s, Oleksandr Kalnychenko (Kharkiv University, Ukraine)Part III: Positionalities as a Methodological Challenge9. Managing Positionality: Reflexivity as a Key to Robust Research in Translation Studies, Sari Hokkanen and Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University, Finland)10. Necessity / Validity / Viability / Positionality: A Comprehensive Survey of Literary Translation in Uruguay within a Transnational Framework, Lucía Campanella, Rosario Lázaro Igoa, Cecilia Torres Rippa and Leticia Hornos WeiszPart IV: Research for the Earth 11. A Conversation, Sebnem Susam-Saraeva (University of Edinburgh, UK), Garda Elsherif (University of Mainz, Germany) and Joanna Sobesto (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)Index

This innovative work maps the two levels at which the linguistic, spatial, temporal, and social conditions of translation studies operate: the individual researcher and the discipline as a whole. It makes an outstanding contribution to the self-reflexivity of translation studies, a crucial and even indispensable perspective for a field undergoing today a set of profound transformations.