Translation as a cultural tool for mediating conflict in queer and feminist grassroots democratic coalitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden

IF 2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nicole Doerr
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In this article, I present the findings of a three-year qualitative research project studying feminist and queer activist groups that support refugees in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. My findings show how multilingual activists volunteered as linguistic interpreters to enable inclusive dialogue between refugees and host-country citizens in joint grassroots democratic coalition meetings. Based on interviews with different groups, I show that their linguistic-broker position gave these activists the leverage to challenge and bring to the attention of white-majority citizens the exclusionary dynamics of structural inequality and civic-status hierarchies that create tensions within supposedly open and inclusive joint meetings. By highlighting the critical, counter-hegemonic positionality of activist-translators in coalitions working on gender, the central contribution of my case study is to connect theories of translation and conflict mediation in transnational social movements with research that focuses on the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in intersectional coalitions.
翻译作为调解丹麦、德国和瑞典酷儿和女权主义基层民主联盟冲突的文化工具
在这篇文章中,我展示了一项为期三年的定性研究项目的结果,该项目研究了丹麦、德国和瑞典支持难民的女权主义者和酷儿活动家团体。我的研究结果显示,多语种活动人士如何自愿担任语言口译员,以便在基层民主联盟联合会议上实现难民和东道国公民之间的包容性对话。根据对不同群体的采访,我表明,他们的语言中间人地位给了这些活动家挑战和提请白人占多数的公民注意结构性不平等和公民地位等级制度的排斥性动态的杠杆作用,这些因素在本应开放和包容的联合会议中造成了紧张关系。通过强调积极译者在性别联盟中的批判性、反霸权地位,我的案例研究的核心贡献是将跨国社会运动中的翻译和冲突调解理论与关注交叉联盟中包容和排斥动态的研究联系起来。
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European Journal of Politics and Gender
European Journal of Politics and Gender Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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