World Politics in Translation
Subtitle: Power, Relationality and Difference in Global Cooperation
By: Tobias Berger
Contributors: Esguerra, Alejandro
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Global Cooperation Series
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781315209333
Subjects: International cooperation; Intercultural communication; Political aspects; Communication in politics; Social aspects; Globalization; International Cooperation; Coopération internationale; Communication politique; Aspect social; Mondialisation; Aspect politique; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; International; International Relations; General
Description: "Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today - such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and economic globalization - imply objects that move. However, surprisingly little is known about how the actual objects of world politics are constituted, how they move and how they change while moving. This book addresses these questions through the concept of 'translation' - the simultaneous processes of object constitution, transportation and transformation. Translations occur when specific forms of knowledge about the environment, international human rights norms or water policies consolidate, travel and change. World Politics in Translation conceptualizes 'translation' for International Relations by drawing on theoretical insights from Literary Studies, Postcolonial Scholarship and Science and Technology Studies. The individual chapters explore how the concept of translation opens new perspectives on development cooperation, the diffusion of norms and organizational templates, the performance in and of international organizations or the politics of international security governance. This book constitutes an excellent resource for students and scholars in the fields of Politics, International Relations, Social Anthropology, Development Studies and Sociology. Combining empirically grounded case studies with methodological reflection and theoretical innovation, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to world politics in translation."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: the objects of translation; PART I Concepts; 2 Good treason: following Actor-Network Theory to the realm of drug policy; 3 The travelling concept of organized crime and the stabilization of securitized international cooperation: a translational reading; PART II Instruments; 4 Translating the glucometer; title: from 'Western' markets to Uganda: glucometer graveyards, missing testing strips and the difficulties of patient care.; title: 5 The promotion of Rule of Law in translation: technologies of normative knowledge transfer in South Sudan's constitution makingPART III Facts; 6 What is wrong with the United Nations? Cynicism and the translation of facts; 7 Reflexivity, positionality and normativity in the ethnography of policy translation; PART IV Projects; 8 Europe in translation: governance, assemblage and the project form; 9 Translation and the challenges of supranational integration: the common grammar and its dissent; PART V Expertise.; title: 10 Faithful translation? Shifting the boundaries of the religious and the secular in the global climate change debate11 Translating for politico-epistemic authority: comparing food safety agencies in Germany and in the UK; 12 Conclusion: power, relationality and difference; Index.