Creating New Languages of Resistance - Translation, Public Philosophy and Border Violence

Omid Tofighian has been engaged in philosophical, artistic and political work with displaced, exiled and incarcerated peoples for 25 years. Creating New Languages of Resistance is an intellectual and personal reflection on creative resistance; addressesing critical issues pertaining to epistemic injustice, kyriarchy and border violence.

List of contents

1. Translation as Resistance: Creating New Languages Through Collaboration
Stories of translation plans, processes and products
Crossing borders and arriving at translation
Representing and translating carceral-border narratives
Notes on translation
Appendix
2. Translation as Public Philosophy: Creating New Knowledges
Creative resistance from inside the prison camps: the role of collaborators and translators
Damaging narratives, damaging tropes/New narratives, new languages
Notes on translation
Appendix
3. Collaboration, Activism, Translation and Storytelling: Revisiting the 23-Day Siege on Manus Prison
Collective Knowledge and Resisting Border Violence
Translating interweaving narratives, combining diverse creations
Personal communication and reception within the siege narrative
Epistolic networks and legacies: writing and translating letters about a tragedy
The final visit to Manus Prison
Notes on translation
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
4. Translation, Public Philosophy and Creative Work
Translation and knowledge production: knowing border violence
Translation and experimentation
The reception to No Friend but the Mountains
Notes on translation
Appendix
5. Border-Industrial Complex
Storytelling, cultural memory and experimentation
Synecdoche: Part/Whole Relationships of Border Violence
Identifying kyriarchy, exposing the kyriarchal system
Notes on translation
Appendix

About the author

Omid Tofighian is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His publications include Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (2016) and translation of Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018).

Summary

Omid Tofighian has been engaged in philosophical, artistic and political work with displaced, exiled and incarcerated peoples for 25 years. Creating New Languages of Resistance is an intellectual and personal reflection on creative resistance; addressesing critical issues pertaining to epistemic injustice, kyriarchy and border violence.

Product details

• Authors: Omid Tofighian, Tofighian Omid
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032596266
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3259626-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Translation, Politics and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social groups, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Translation & interpretation, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, Legal aspects of criminology, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Civil rights & citizenship, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Criminology: legal aspects, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Translation and interpretation, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities