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Author Archives: Leigh Blount
Lingos: From language knowledge to communication skills
Global governance has expanded over the last two decades into long-term involvement in many countries. This long-term involvement may be compared to earlier European colonial governance, although they follow distinct models of knowledge and interaction. Today’s global multicultural models, which … Continue reading
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Tagged British colonial, DFID, European colonial, Mark Duffield, UNESCO, Vanessa Pupavac
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LINGOs: Politics of Cultural and Language Knowledge in Post-Cold War Humanitarianism
LINGOs: Politics of Cultural and Language Knowledge in Post-Cold War Humanitarianism Humanitarianism has been to core how the Global North has related to the Global South. The Live Aid response to the 1984-5 Ethiopian Famine anticipated how humanitarianism would become … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold war, Derek Summerfield, ethiopian famine, humanitarianism, Mark Duffield, Patrick Bracken, psychosocial, Ray Tallis, UN, Vanessa Pupavac
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The language policies of British colonial service
Global governance has evolved into a permanent presence in many countries. As such global governance has analogies to colonial governance, but involves distinct politics of knowledge. The different politics of knowledge and organisational approaches towards language knowledge give insights into … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Anthony Kirk-Greene, Chinese, Colonialism, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Steve Tsang, Vanessa Pupavac
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Strangers Meeting? Global Governance and Global English Debates
Globalisation and global governance have been major preoccupations of the social sciences for the last two decades. Yet the language dimension of the evolving global civil society relations has been neglected in the social sciences and policy thinking on global … Continue reading
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Tagged ecolinguistics, Globalisation, Jacques Derrida, Mark Duffield, sociolinguistics, Vanessa Pupavac, war zones
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Language Research
The linguistic landscape of crisis zones The policy and practice of languages in conflict areas has become an issue of increasing interest to academic researchers, policymakers, and language practitioners over the past five years, an interest at least partially stimulated … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Britain, Cyprus, Iraq, Linguistics, Peace keeping
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Language Policy
What has been much less evident in such research has been the existence of institutional markers, policies which recognise the key importance of languages and prepare in advance for the language dimensions of conflict. The general pattern emerging from case … Continue reading
The invisibility of language intermediaries
The occlusion of non-military linguists, their apparent absence from policy-making for conflict, is in many ways related to a much more fundamental problem, a classic tendency to ignore the presence of language intermediaries altogether, to deny personal subjectivity to those … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosnia & Herzegovina, Interpreters, Language, Linguistics, Mediation
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The place of translation/interpreting
Among translation and interpreting scholars however there has been an increasing interest in the role of languages in conflict, and in particular in the part which translators and interpreters play in military situations (Apter, 2006; M. Baker, 2006; Dragovic-Drouet, 2007; … Continue reading
Sites of transnational conflict
Whilst the setting for all this research, both the detailed case studies and the translation/interpreting scholarship, has largely been one of war and conflict, the fundamental points that are being made are arguably of high relevance to any study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conflict zone, Globalization, Language, Linguistics, Translation
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