Written by leading scholars in a range of disciplines (from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies), this book provides key insights into the globalization of violence and the role of translation in this context, and includes detailed empirical analyses of media representations and translators' accounts.

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ANTONIO AGUILERA works at the Department of History of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Barcelona, Spain EMILY APTER is Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA MONA BAKER is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK UPENDRA BAXI is Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, UK MOIRA INGHILLERI is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK LIAM KENNEDY is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland MARTIN MONTGOMERY is Reader in Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, UK STUART PRICE is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Production at De Montfort University, UK KEITH TESTER is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK MARIA TYMOCZKO is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusets Amherst, USA SIGRID WEIGEL is Director of Zentrum für Literaturforschung (Berlin) and a Professor at TU Berlin, Germany

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Globalization, Political Violence and Translation: An Introduction; E.Bielsa PART I: INTERPRETING GLOBAL VIOLENCE Terminal Paradox of Globalization; K.Tester Translating Terror: Siting Truth, Justice and Rights Amidst the Two 'Terror' Wars; U.Baxi Ethics and Violence; A.Aguilera The Sovereign, the Martyr and 'Just War' Beyond the Jus Publicum Europaeum : The Dilemma of Political Theology; S.Wiegel PART II: NARRATIVES OF GLOBAL TERROR Semantic Asymmetries and 'The War on Terror'; M.Montgomery Missiles in Athens and Tanks at Heathrow: Urban Security and the Materialization of 'Global Threat'; S.Price Between Exceptionalism and Universalism: Photography as Cultural Diplomacy; L.Kennedy PART III: TRANSLATING TERROR Translation, Ethics and Ideology in a Violent Globalizing World; M.Tymoczko Translation - 9/11: Terrorism, Immigration, Language Politics; E.Apter Translators in War Zones: Ethics Under Fire in Iraq; M.Inghilleri Resisting State Terror: Theorizing Communities of Activist Translators and Interpreters; M.Baker Conclusion: Globalization, Political Violence and Security; C.W.Hughes Index