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The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict

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Editors:
  1. Michael Kelly

    1. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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  2. Hilary Footitt

    1. University of Reading, Reading, UK

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  3. Myriam Salama-Carr

    1. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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  • Examines the role of languages in situations of conflict

  • Pays particular attention to the institutions and actors who set the parameters for language encounters in war

  • Maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning interdisciplinary field setting out the range of conceptual and methodological approaches on which it typically draws

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Shock of War

    • Michael Kelly, Hilary Footitt, Myriam Salama-Carr
    Pages 1-25

  3. Conceptual Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Good Anthropology, Bad History: America’s Cultural Turn in the War on Terror

      • Patrick Porter
      Pages 29-50

    3. On Encounters and Ethics in the Vietnam War

      • Moira Inghilleri
      Pages 51-71

    4. From the Page to the Battlefield and Back: Translating War

      • Myriam Salama-Carr
      Pages 73-89

    5. Language Policy and War

      • Michael Kelly
      Pages 91-109

  4. Source, Documentation and Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Military History and Translation Studies: Shifting Territories, Uneasy Borders

      • Pekka Kujamäki, Hilary Footitt
      Pages 113-136

    3. Archives and Sources

      • Hilary Footitt
      Pages 137-155

    4. Interviewing for Research on Languages and War

      • Catherine Baker
      Pages 157-179

  6. Languages at War in History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
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About this book

This Handbook maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of language and languages in situations of conflict. It explores conceptual approaches, sources of information that are available, and the institutions and actors that mediate language encounters. It examines case studies of the role that languages have played in specific conflicts, from colonial times through to the Middle East and Africa today. The contributors provide vibrant evidence to challenge the monolingual assumptions that have affected traditional views of war and conflict. They show that languages are woven into every aspect of the making of war and peace, and demonstrate how language shapes public policy and military strategy, setting frameworks and expectations. The Handbook's 22 chapters powerfully illustrate how the encounter between languages is integral to almost all conflicts, to every phase of military operations and to the lived experiences of those on the ground, who meet, work and fight with speakers of other languages. This comprehensive work will appeal to scholars from across the disciplines of linguistics, translation studies, history, and international relations; and provide fresh insights for a broad range of practitioners interested in understanding the role and implications of foreign languages in war.

Reviews

“This volume is a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject and its inclusion in course curricula as a reference book would be commendable, not only for students of translation and interpreting but also for those in fields dealing with war studies, history, sociology of conflicts or security studies.” (Vedrana Čemerin, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, September 30, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Michael Kelly

  • University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Hilary Footitt

  • University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Myriam Salama-Carr

About the editors

​Michael Kelly is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Southampton, UK, and Editor of the European Journal of Language Policy. He was co-author of Interpreting the Peace: Peace Operations, Conflict and Language in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2013).

Hilary Footitt is Senior Research Fellow in the University of Reading, UK. She was Principal Investigator for the AHRC project Languages at War, and co-author of WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War effort in Europe, 1940-47 (2013).


Myriam Salama-Carr is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. She has published widely in the history of translation and was editor of Translating and Interpreting Conflict (2007).

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