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Translational futures: notes on ecology and translation from the COVID-19 crisis
- Abstract:
- This essay examines and compares notions of ecology and translation to bring them to a point of convergence. It asks what impact the epistemic collision of these seemingly distant ideas may have on scholarship and policy in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The essay develops the concept of ‘deep translation’ as a complex, ecologically inflected construct, and considers the uses and limitations of this model across three problem areas linked to the COVID-19 crisis: health, the environment and ethnicity. The essay contends that translation and ecology share a similar theoretical setup as well as analogous, ethical preoccupations: namely, the necessity of communicating across spheres of difference. This is a first, exploratory attempt at outlining a broad-spectrum, translational imagination that encompasses translation’s and ecology’s many meanings.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.4324/9781003267843-19
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Host title:
- The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare
- Pages:
- 249-265
- Chapter number:
- 16
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
- Place of publication:
- New York
- Publication date:
- 2022-11-30
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781003267843
- ISBN:
- 9781032213231
- Language:
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English
- Subtype:
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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2295230
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pubs:2295230
- Deposit date:
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2025-09-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Marta Arnaldi
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Piotr Blumczynski and Steven Wilson, individual chapters, the contributors. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license.
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