Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 29 Issue 2

Crisis translation: considering language needs in multilingual disaster settings

Sharon O’Brien, Federico Marco Federici

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role that language translation can play in disaster prevention and management and to make the case for increased attention to…

The role of translators and interpreters in cascading crises and disasters: Towards a framework for confronting the challenges

David E. Alexander, Gianluca Pescaroli

The purpose of this paper is to explain the significance of cascading crises for translators and interpreters, and how their work may be affected by such events. It provides a…

Trust, distrust and translation in a disaster

Patrick Cadwell

The purpose of this paper is to describe, explain and provide context for relationships between translation, trust and distrust using accounts of the 2011 Great East Japan…

Ethics and crisis translation: insights from the work of Paul Ricoeur

Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Matthew R. Hunt

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ethical dimensions of crisis translation through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical scholarship. In particular, his work on…

Ophelia, Emma, and the beast from the east effortful engaging and the provision of sign language interpreting in emergencies

Lorraine Leeson

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Republic of Ireland’s National Emergency Coordinating Group performed with respect to ensuring access to emergency information for…

Transnational crisis translation: social media and forced migration

Jay Marlowe

The purpose of this paper is to outline how refugees’ transnational networks and online relationships facilitated through social media provide access to timely and trusted…

Local capacity building after crisis: The role of languages and translation in the work of development NGOs in Kyrgyzstan

Wine Tesseur

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of languages and translation in the context of capacity building in NGOs in Kyrgyzstan. It argues that language barriers can…