Revisiting the politics of translation: Translation, nation and gender

This thematic issue, Revisiting the Politics of Translation: Translation, Nation and Gender, explores translation as both practice and political concept. Translation is not a neutral transfer of meaning, but a field where power relations-between languages, nations, genders, and identities-are continuously negotiated. The contributions examine translation?s ambivalent role in reinforcing or challenging violence, nationalism, and coloniality, as well as its transformative potential in feminist, decolonial, and global South contexts. Articles address topics such as meaning-change and ?woke? discourse, counter-translation and hegemony, the regime of modern translation, feminist struggles, policy and decolonial perspectives, psychoanalysis in the South, translation as counter-violence, and cultural appropriation. Collectively, these essays underline translation?s capacity to destabilize binaries, open spaces of reciprocity, and act as a form of counter-politics. By situating translation within contemporary conflicts, crises, and social movements, the issue rethinks its role as a practice of negotiation at the intersection of language, politics, and culture.