Translating Crises

Description

Translating and interpreting in crises is emotionally and cognitively demanding, with crisis communication in intercultural and multilingual disaster settings relying on a multitude of cross-cultural mediators and ever-emerging new technologies. This volume explores the challenges and demands involved in translating crises and the ways in which people, technologies and organisations look for effective, impactful solutions to the communicative problems. Problematising the major issues, but also providing solutions and recommendations, chapters reflect on and evaluate the role of translation and interpreting in crisis settings. Covering a diverse range of situations from across the globe, such as health emergencies, severe weather events, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, conflicts, and mass migration, this volume analyses practices and investigates the effectiveness of current approaches and communication strategies. The book considers perspectives, from interpreting specialists, educators, emergency doctors, healthcare professionals, psychologists, and members of key NGOs, to reflect the complex and multifaceted nature of crisis communication. Placing an emphasis on lessons learnt and innovative solutions, Translating Crises points the way towards more effective multilingual emergency communication in future crises.

Sharon O'Brien is Professor of Translation Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. Federico M. Federici is Professor of Intercultural Crisis Communication at University College London, UK.

Translating Crises is a highly relevant and timely contribution, responding to the social needs of the moment. Its depth and breadth of contributions on crisis translation/interpreting are truly remarkable. Being both research-based and practice-oriented, it is likely to become a go-to volume for everyone interested in this topic. -- Natasa Pavlovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia An essential work on crisis translation from two of the leading figures in the field. Dr. O'Brien and Dr. Federici gather in this volume the pioneering views of scholars, established professionals, committed NGO workers and human rights specialists, who provide a global insight into the cross-disciplinary area of Intercultural communication in crisis settings. -- Celia Rico, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain