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Abstract: Over the last decades, the possibility of using translation for socio-political agenda and political engagement has taken a great interest in translation studies from the overview of translation theories retraining to subversion or hegemonic context. Moreover, both sociological and sociopolitical approaches to translation highlight the central position of translators themselves as subjectivity and historicity in the process of translating and identifying the translators’ professional trajectories and social positioning as crucial to both process and products of translation activity. Thus, the activist translators use the translation as a knowledge production process that enlightens people to initiate and facilitate socio-political movements which end to social and political changes. This paper investigates the issue of an Iranian activist translator's agency applying Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts (habitus, capital) in the socio-political context of Iran in the 1970s. This study surveys how Samad Behrangi, as a socio-political activist translator and thinker, based on his habitus, selects and translates some texts to transfer new knowledge to the society as cultural capital which intensifies the initiation and the facilitation of social reforms and political movements in Iran in the 1970s. The paper peruses some texts translated by Samad Behrangi to illustrate that he wields his own politics in translation to illuminate Iranians’ thought in contradiction of the imperial regime to stimulate them against institutions of power. Keywords: Translation, power, habitus, cultural capital, engagement.
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Abstract: The migration of various ethnic groups creates a challenge for policymakers in general and civil society in particular. The concerns, as well as maintaining the status quo, could present obstacles in creating a homogenous and equitable civil society. As an immigrant-absorbing state, Israel is challenged both socially and economically in these realms. The Melting Pot concept was one of Israel's founding blocks since the 1950's fail. Has it failed? Is there truth to the protesters' allegations of institutionalized racism? In light of the demonstrations and accusations of racism in Israeli society, what changes should be set in motion? Keywords: Racism, Police Violence, the Beta Israel Community, Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel.
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Abstract: In recent years, cross-border reproductive care has become an industry built on reproductive solutions for infertile individuals and couples as well as same sex couples who leave their “home” country to receive fertility treatments abroad. The diverse national policies and regulations across Europe in the field of assisted reproduction represent politically negotiated rationing criteria in states' health policy decisions. This highly diversified regulatory field opens up a range of transnational ethical issues arising from the adverse consequences and concerns of reproductive services and treatments operating across national boundaries. In this paper, we propose to broaden the scope of the EU's normative power to include the adverse consequences and concerns of cross-border travel to seek reproductive care. Towards this end, greater investment in accountability mechanisms should be applied at the EU level to equity issues arising from fertility tourism and to assessing the normative appropriateness of policy responses at both state and supranational levels across Europe to guide regulation in this policy domain. Keywords: European Union, accountability, fertility tourism, regulation, health care. |
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Abstract: The article provides an overview on the importance of international education, and the significance of short-term study abroad programs. It also provides specific step-by-step guidelines and recommendations to help first-time faculty members who are interested in conducting a short-term study abroad program in the field of child development and family studies. Explanations are given on conducting orientation sessions before departure, suggestions for fund raising activities, balancing the academic content with recreational and adventure excursions, making arrangements for guest speakers in the host county, arranging for visits to social service agencies, and lastly incorporating service learning activates in the program. Questions such as, “What are some of the of the typical challenges that a faculty leader is likely to encounter in the host country”? are addressed. A summary of the qualitative analyses that was obtained from the students, about their reactions to the program, and the impact that it had on them, after they returned from the 3-week program is explored. Keywords: Study abroad, planning and conducting, pre-departure meetings, qualitative outcomes. |
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Abstract: This essay proposes an interpretation of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man based on a combination of textual analysis and contemporary theoretical approaches to the specific questions of trauma, grief, and posttraumatic healing as well as the more general question of the status of the subject in a postmodern context marked by increasing globalization and transnational interactions. This multidimensional interpretive approach makes it possible to theorize one of the central metanarrative questions posed by DeLillo’s novel: the potential function of the postmodern novel as an antidote against various expressions of contemporary angst, such as the dread of terrorist violence or the fear of aging and age-related maladies. In exploring the significance of a double esthetic articulation in DeLillo’s novel (an esthetic of estrangement and an “esthetic of disappearance”), the essay analyzes the author’s representation of his characters’ varying reactions to terror-related trauma and the role of the imagination in such reactions. While Falling Man represents subjective experiences of trauma and loss in painful and at times shocking ways, its dissection of the imaginary dimension of trauma also presents its readers with the possibility of incorporating various effects of traumatic experience into cohesive and constructive strategies of self-reassessment, grief management, and healing. . Keywords: 9/11 terrorist attacks, Alzheimer’s, terrorism, trauma, grief, PTSD, posttraumatic recovery. |
