The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking cities through translation

Part I

Key Issues






The translational city





Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries





Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city





Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization





Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner's account


Part II

The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions




Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels





Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices





Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games





Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering





Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu?





Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwow/Lviv





Cities and desires: Translating Seoul





Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn


Part III

Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis




Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London





Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies





Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo





Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens





Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation





Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi





Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong


Part IV

Cities in writing, translation as trope




Sites of translation in Melbourne





La flaneuse montrealaise translates





Phantom translation in New Orleans





Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste





Autophagy as translation





Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing

Index