The Trans/National Study of Culture (eBook)

A Translational Perspective

Doris Bachmann-Medick (Herausgeber)

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2014
279 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-037260-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume establishes key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable between nation-specific approaches such as British/American Cultural Studies, German Kulturwissenschaften and French Sciences Humaines. Theoretical reflections and case studies contribute to a new trans/national view of the study of culture within an entangled world society. 

Doris Bachmann-Medick, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.

Autor

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Doris Bachmann-Medick, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.

Inhalt

The Trans/National Study of Culture. A Translational Perspective 9
Towards Transnational Approaches to the Study of Culture. From Cultural Studies and Kulturwissenschaften to a Transnational Study of Culture 31
I. Conceptualizations and Histories 59
Place and Displaced Categories, or How We Translate Ourselves into Global Histories of the Modern 61
The Transnational Study of Culture and the Indeterminacy of People(s) and Language(s) 77
Scenes of Encounter. A Translational Approach to Travelling Concepts in the Study of Culture 101
From Hybridity to Translation. Reflections on Travelling Con 127
Is there a Timetable when Concepts Travel?. On Synchronicity in the Emergence of New Concepts Dealing with Border-Crossing Phenomena 145
What Do We Translate when We Translate?. Context, Process, and Practice as Categories of Cultural Analysis 163
II. Knowledge Systems and Discursive Fields 177
Translation and the East There is No Such Thing as an ‘Eastern European Study of Culture’ 179
Australian Cultural Studies. Intellectual Traditions and Critical Perspectives 189
Cultural Studies. Critical Methodologies and the Transnational Challenge 209
Translating ‘Media’ and ‘Communication’. National Assignment and Transnational Misunderstanding 231
D/Rifts between Visual Culture and Image Culture. Relocations of the Transnational Study of the Visual 245
Notes on Contributors 269
Index 275

Rezensionen

lt;P>"[...] the book succeeds in highlighting many current challenges within cultural studies, and its thoughtprovoking essays with their different perspectives should foster lively debates about new directions in cultural studies."
Jennifer Michaels in: German Studies Review 40.1 (2017): 163-165

"Insgesamt zeigt der Band, wie sehr die Erforschung der Kultur nicht allein von unterschiedlichen Kulturauffassungen und kulturellen Traditionen, sondern auch von deren Verflechtung und damit einhergehenden Konflikten gekennzeichnet ist."
Antje Dietze in: H-Soz-u-Kult (10. 10. 2014)

"The Trans/National Study of Culture: A Translational Perspective is, through its own structure and approach, the best proof that the project proposed in the title can be successful in research. By its integrative power, it is likely to contribute to the setting up of a rewardingly inclusive space of views, interests and theories. Reuniting researchers from a variety of fields – cultural and literary studies, translation studies, sociology, philosophy, politics, history, art criticism, media and communication studies – the volume serves as a place of encounter whose most appealing quality is polyphony. It manages to make independent, sometimes dissonant, voices fuse into a concerted effort to address issues of utmost concern for both the academic and non-academic world. [...] Reuniting contributors from a variety of fields, the volume constitutes itself as a kaleidoscopic image of culture, with „translation‟ serving as a guiding concept and principle. By the approaches adopted, the volume invites a clear change of mindset in academia. The meaning of culture exists across rather than within disciplines and must therefore be decoded trans/nationally through a translational perspective."
Anca Dobrinescu in: Word and Text. A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics IV,2/2014

"The volume was conceived as an intervention in the debate concerning “the transnational study of culture” as an umbrella under which cultural studies as well as Kulturwissenschaften would be mutually enriched and evolve. One could ask to what extent this English-language volume will encourage a transnational study of culture in a multilingual translational perspective since, as Karen Bennett (2007) convincingly observes, academic monolingualism erases the particularities of discourses in other languages and silences alternative forms of construing knowledge. While it is a legitimate goal to intervene in a debate dominated by English, and address the readers actively engaged in it, this nonetheless underscores the asymmetry of the actors involved and the profound paradox of the situation."
Andrea Pagni in: Translation Studies 9,2/2016

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
• Reihe/Serie: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: 2 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Kulturwissenschaft • Translation • transnationalism • Transnationalität • Übersetzung
• ISBN-10: 3-11-037260-6 / 3110372606
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-037260-1 / 9783110372601