Research Catalog

Title

Ma(r)king the Difference : multiculturalism and the politics of translation / Tania Mancheno.

Author

Mancheno, Tania

Publication

• Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer VS, [2023]
• ©2023

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Description

xii, 240 pages : illustration; 21 cm

Summary

This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th to the 21st century in central Europe and the Americas. The surplus lies in the inclusion of colonial history in the genealogy of Western political thought and ideas, as well as in the postcolonial discussion of multiculturalism. The manuscript deals with the power and authority of translation providing the reader with an insight into the history of colonial racism through a deep conceptual analysis of three historical debates that have not been previously discussed together. By linking the so-called "Indian Question", the "Jewish Question" and the multicultural question, this thesis includes a valuable critical revision of the origins of Humanism in colonial times and contexts and an original critique to the power and violence of language in ma(r)king differences, which is described in terms of translation. This thesis was selected among the three best dissertations in critical social thinking of the year 2019 by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. About the author: Tania Mancheno is a political scientist, an independent critical researcher and a lecturer at the Department of Geography, at the University of Hamburg. She teaches on critical space theory, conceptual history and urban multiculturalism. Mancheno is an associate researcher at the centre "Hamburg's (post-)colonial legacy".

Subject

• Multiculturalism
• Translating and interpreting > Political aspects
• multiculturalism
• Multiculturalism
• Translating and interpreting > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Intertwining multiculturalism and translation -- Translation and culture--in five currents of thought -- Translation as method -- Translation and the question of minorities -- Translation: moral imperative or colonial question? -- Translation in the Valladolid Debate -- Translation and the Jewish Question -- Translating multiculturalism -- Conclusions -- References.

ISBN

• 3658409231
• 9783658409234

OCLC

• on1369678271
• SCSB-14669540

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library