Translation and Neoliberalism

Ali Jalalian Daghigh is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia, where he teaches and mentors master's and PhD students conducting research in Translation Studies and Critical Discourse Studies. Prior to joining UM, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research is widely published in several international journals, and he is the editor of Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South, published by Springer in 2022.

Mark Shuttleworth is Professor and Dean of the School of Translation and Foreign Languages at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in translation studies research and teaching since 1993, at the University of Leeds, Imperial College London, University College London and - more recently - at Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include the Dictionary of Translation Studies and articles on translation technology, translator training, metaphor in translation, translation and the web, and Wikipedia translation. He is interested in the use of digital methodologies in translation studies research. His monograph, Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation, was published in 2017, and he is currently working on the second edition of the Dictionary.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Neoliberalism Tendencies in Translation and Interpreting Education: Perspectives on Universities and Students.- Chapter 2. Translator Training in the Context of Neoliberalism: Balancing Academic Expectations and Market Forces.- Chapter 3. Translation Entrepreneurship among Translation and Interpreting Students: A Qualitative Inquiry in the Chinese Setting.- Chapter 4. In pursuit of Interpreting in Neoliberal Korea.- Part II: Neoliberal Policies and Translation Services.- Chapter 5. Community Translation and Interpretating under Neoliberal Agendas: The Cases of Australia and Canada.- Chapter 6. Impact of Neoliberalism on Public-sector Translation in Canada.- Chapter 7. Unpacking Language of Neoliberalism and Globalisation on the Linguistic Landscape of Superdiverse Dubai's posh JBR and Dubai Marina areas: Official Policy, Translation, the Juggernaut of English and 'fake' Arabic.- Part III: Neoliberalism, Technology and Labour Market Transformation in Translation and Interpreting Profession.- Chapter 8. Welcome to the (Translation) Machine! Translation Labour in Times of TechnoTriumphalism.- Chapter 9. Neoliberal Practices Endangering the Sustainability of the Translation Profession: Non-Standard Forms of Work, Labor Monopsonies, and Technology as a Catalyst for Precarization.- Chapter 10. Interpreting one's way through the gig economy: Neoliberal Shifts and the Platformization of Interpretation Work.- Chapter 11. Navigating Neoliberal Risks in Online Collaborative Literary Translation: A Case Study on Translators' Self-Efficacy and Risk Management in the Chinese Context.- Part V: Neoliberal Discourses in Translation.- Chapter 12. Children as Global Subjects: A Comparison of Translated Picture Books in the US and China.- Chapter 13. The Discourse of Neoliberalism in Translated and Domestically Produced Children's Literature in Iran.- Chapter 14. (De) emphasization of Neoliberalism Discourse in Translated and Domestic News on Education in China.