Tag: reviews
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If I Were the Head of ITI
For almost three years, I have been researching, analysing and critiquing the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) — its public positions, its relationships with commercial actors, the narratives it promotes, the questions it asks and, sometimes, the questions I think it should be asking but isn’t. My interest is not really in ITI for…
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It Could Have Been Me, or Any One of Us: I Continue Writing to Challenge the Scripts of Power
Over the past three years, my anger at the multiple levels of oppression surrounding public service interpreting has been building. I often feel like a member of the audience in a Forum Theatre performance, watching a scripted show unfold before me. I can see the harm. I can see problematic power dynamics and absence of…
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Talent Pipelines or Precarity Pipelines? Setting the Narrative Straight on the UK Language Industry
By Fardous Bahbouh, Researcher & Consultant on Labour Rights, Public Policy, and the Political Economy of the Translation Industry Like many, I was saddened to read about the closure of the Modern Languages department at Cardiff University. This represents a lost opportunity for global understanding, cross-cultural communication, economic development, and the continuous progress of humanity.…
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