In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443840696 ISBN 13: 9781443840699

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalisation, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book offers a convergence of perspectives, combining conceptual and empirical work by sociologists, anthropologists, historians, linguists, educators, lawyers, media specialists, and literary studies writers, in their shared attempt to understand the many routes of the intercultural experience. This Permanent Transit generates an overlapping of cultures, characteristic of a site of cultural translation. In their incessant creation of uncertainties, these pages also produce new hypotheses, theories and explanations, while pushing limits, bringing about epistemological changes, and opening new spaces for independent discussion and research. The potential for change is located at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the 'new arrivals' and the 'excluded' - like this book and many of its contributors - are able to use subversion to undermine the strategies of the powerful, regardless of who they are. Cultural translation - both as Judith Butler's 'return of the excluded' and as Homi Bhabha's hybridity - is a major force of contemporary democracy, also in the academic field.

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About the Author

Clara Sarmento, PhD in Portuguese Culture, develops her research on gender and intercultural representations as the Coordinator of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where she is a tenured Professor and the Director of the Masters course in Specialized Translation. Throughout her career, she has received several international awards. She is the author of numerous essays, books and conferences on literary, gender and cultural studies. Sara Brusaca is a translator and teacher of English. She completed her degree in Applied Foreign Languages at the University of Minho, Portugal, and finished her master's degree in Specialized Translation at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. She has participated in several courses and seminars at the Imperial College of London and Oxford University. Silvia Sousa completed her degree in Communication and Specialized Translation at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. In the past few years, she has been an active member of the Center for Intercultural Studies, where she develops research on intercultural representations in Asia.

Review

"In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience has set an ambitious goal for itself: that of fostering intercultural dialogue ignored by mainstream academia. The volume is no doubt a welcome addition to discussions surrounding the interconnections of several fields in the humanities, including translation studies." Cristiano A. Mazzei Century College TradTerm: Revista do Centro Interdepartamental de Traducao e Terminologia 21 (2013)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443840696
• ISBN 13: 9781443840699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Clara Sarmento, Silvia Sousa