Translation across borders: exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: While it challenges academic research with new political and policy problems, the restructuring of citizen/state relationships coincides with growing pressure for academic research to ‘make a difference’. Drawing on four Connected Communities projects, this chapter argues that conceptualising research use as practices of translation seems fruitful. The humanities discipline of translation studies draws attention to the multiple and potentially conflicting functions of translations and the skilled, purposeful practices of translators. Their actions are shaped by institutional and communicative factors, in both academic and government spheres, which often mitigate against mutually satisfactory translation. The chapter suggests that a solution may lie in coproducing knowledge through collaboration around translation, principally through dialogue and meaning creation across the academic/policy border. Rather than dissolving differences of culture and language this demands mutual respect and the sense of a shared endeavour.
Source: Policy Press eBooks
Authors: Steve Connelly, Dave Vanderhoven, Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson, Peter Matthews, Robert Rutherfoord
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4383852449