Hilary Footitt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hilary Footitt plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 11. When the armies went back home: Local interpreters and the politics of protection Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 268–287 | Chapter
Research on interpreting in war has investigated the role played by local civilians recruited by the Army as linguistic mediators. This chapter explores the aftermath of war for these local interpreters in the case of the conflict in Afghanistan, using the seven-year long debates on their fate… read more
2016 Military history and translation studies: Shifting territories, uneasy borders Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplines, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Article
Both translation studies and military history are disciplines which occupy
radically shifting territories, and it has been at their currently uneasy borders
that this conversation on transdisciplinarity has been conducted. The
move from culturally as well as socially visible translational contexts… read more