Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization

This is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive coverage of the main approaches that theorize translation and globalization offering a wide-ranging selection of chapters dealing with substantive areas of research. The handbook investigates the many ways in which translation both enables globalization and is inevitably transformed by it.Taking a genuinely interdisciplinary approach the authors are leading researchers drawn from the social sciences as well as from translation studies. The chapters cover major areas of current interdisciplinary interest including climate change migration borders democracy and human rights as well as key topics in the discipline of translation studies. This handbook also highlights the increasing significance of translation in the most pressing social economic and political issues of our time while accounting for the new technologies and practices that are currently deployed to cope with growing translation demands.With five sections covering key concepts people culture economics and politics and a substantial introduction and conclusion this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and globalization within translation and interpreting studies comparative literature sociology global studies cultural studies and related areas.