Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict

Marija Todorova is Assistant Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. She is the author of The Translation of Violence in Children's Literature: Images from the Western Balkans (Routledge 2022) and co-editor of Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios (Routledge 2023).Lucía Ruiz Rosendo is Associate Professor and Head of the Interpreting Department at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the co-editor of Interpreter Training in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios (Routledge 2023).

“The Handbook offers a timely interdisciplinary mapping of the use, role and modalities of translation and interpreting in situations of armed conflicts. It incorporates a range of micro-histories and provides a comprehensive coverage of existing research in the field, together with insights into the impact of technology on the processes of translation and interpreting in the context of armed conflicts.”Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Manchester, UK

• IntroductionLucía Ruiz Rosendo and Marija TodorovaPART IHistorical overview1. Alfaqueques on the medieval Iberian Peninsula (12th-15th century): the evolution of linguistic and cultural mediators in a multilingual armed conflictIcíar Alonso-Araguás 2. The changing shapes of interpretation: War with the Mapuche in the southernmost frontier of the Spanish Empire in America.Gertrudis Payàs3. Language training and interpreting for Japan’s imperial ambitions: Kumamoto-connected interpreters for Korean and Chinese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)Kayoko Takeda4. The Belgian Interpreter Corps (“Corps des Interprètes”) and emerging profiles of interpreters during the First World WarChristophe Declercq and Rebecca Tipton5. Interpreting and translating in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939Julia Kölbl 6. Translating and interpreting during World War IIMałgorzata Tryuk7. Interpreters as interrogators in some armed conflicts of the Cold War María Manuela Fernández Sánchez 8. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaBesmir Fidahić9. Translation, interpretation and the war on terrorism in East Africa: Efforts to win hearts and minds Alamin Mazrui10. Narratives of war and frames of conflict across languages: Evolution over a centuryLesia Ponomarenko and Lucía Ruiz RosendoPART IIRecurring topics11. Contracting and working with Interpreters: The wartime linguistsEleonora Bernardi and Francisco José Leandro12. Understanding the complexities of interpreter positionality and positionality management in armed conflict and beyond Conor Martin 13. Ethical issues and neutrality in the work of translators and interpreters in Yemen’s armed conflictsAhmed Moneus14. From interpreters to fixers: fidelity and agency in premodern and contemporary contextsZrinka Stahuljak15. The impact of the interpreter’s emotions in conflict zones: the case of the local professional interpreter the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Manuel Barea Muñoz16. Interpreting in refugee contexts: The Asylum Claim Process Alejandra González Campanella17. Red T: Protecting translators and interpreters today for tomorrow Maya Hess18. Training for translation and interpreting in armed conflicts and cascading crisesPatrick CadwellPART IIIEmerging topics19. New trends in language use in warfare Pekka Snellman20. Intercultural communication in contexts involving terrorist violence Carmen Pena Díaz 21. Countertransference concept as a psychological aspect of interpretation in the fieldCherine Haidar Ahmad 22. Women in conflict situations: the case of Kajsa Rothman, a Swedish polyglot in defence of the Loyalist government during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)Jesús Baigorri-Jalón23. Translating political plans in times of conflict: Incompatible interpretations and contesting narrativesAhmad Ayyad24. Changing landscape of translation and interpreting: A systematic review of technological advancements and their impact on translation and interpreting practice in armed conflictsKhetam Al Sharou 25. Whose nature is it anyway? Translating and researching environmental conflict in the global south Nancy V. Piñeiro PART IVApproaches to research26. ‘Context is All’: An interdisciplinary approach Hilary Footitt 27. Between allies and enemies: proposing a model for analysis of military translation culturesPekka Kujamäki28. Translating concepts of an armed conflict: Ukraine in the interaction between institutional and press discoursesLesia Ponomarenko and Lucía Ruiz Rosendo29. Clemente Cerdeira: The interpreter who wanted to change the course of the Spanish civil war Mourad Zarrouk30. Memories of war: Analyses of memoirs by interpreters and translator Marija Todorova31. Ethnographic methods to analyse the role of interpreters in conflict and post-conflict scenariosMaura Radicioni and Lucía Ruiz RosendoAfterwordMoira InghilleriIndex