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Cascading crises: translation as risk reduction

Federici, Federico M. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0057-0340 and O'Brien, Sharon orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986 (2019) Cascading crises: translation as risk reduction. In: Federici, Federico M. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0057-0340 and O'Brien, Sharon orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986, (eds.) Translation in Cascading Crises. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), London. ISBN 9781138363502

Abstract
Crises are often transboundary and, even if they are not, culturally and linguistically diverse communities may be caught up in them, whether they are migrant workers, refugees, or tourists. Experts from multiple fields recognize, explore, and challenge our current limitations in engaging with communication issues in multilingual situations of crisis. Understood broadly as both written and spoken acts, translation saves lives and reduces property damages and loss, if it is not a last-minute add-on to crisis management plans. A crisis is not a simple geo-spatial, cultural, legal, humanitarian, medical, logistical, and political tipping point, it is a major concatenation of causes and effects that cascade in many and often unpredictable directions. Yet even where effective, accurate, and specific information is available to be disseminated in different ways through an ever-growing array of technologies, too often the language barrier remains in place. This chapter explores the concept of cascading crises and the role translation could and should have. It positions crisis translation at the intersection of disaster risk reduction, risk communication and translation and interpreting studies. It concludes by highlighting the diverse topics in the volume that start to paint a picture of a diverse field that is opening up for research and development.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:crisis translation; risk perception; intercultural communication; social factors in disasters
Subjects:Humanities > Translating and interpreting
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Official URL:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429341...
Copyright Information:© 2020 Routledge
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Grant No. 734211)
ID Code:24319
Deposited On:03 Apr 2020 11:08 by Alessandra Rossetti . Last Modified 17 Jan 2023 13:12
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