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A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-Than-Human Co-Existence

A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-Than-Human Co-Existence

Valler, Matt

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

LinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1041203756
ISBN13: 9781041203759
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 6 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book proposes a New Materialist theory of translation, redefining translation as a negotiation of agency to address the urgent challenges of co-existence in the Anthropocene.

In the face of increased migration, runaway climate change, and accelerating AI it takes an innovative transdisciplinary approach, moving beyond language and semiotics to explore relations of co-existence among humans, other species, machines, and other more-than-human beings whose identities are harder to define. By integrating developments in Translation Studies with insights from geography, philosophy, the sciences, and narrative theory, the book conceptualises 'translationality' as a material relation of energy, movement, and experience, entangled with the phenomenon of place. Translationality is thought of as the process by which worlds narrate and change themselves, and to translate is to participate in this process. An autoethnographic account of Truro, UK--a contested center-periphery site--provides a rich context for developing theory through translational practice. In situating translation within New Materialism, the book offers a philosophical and political framework for approaching co-existence and its ongoing negotiation.

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