{"product_id":"translation-and-epistemicide-racialization-of-languages-in-the-americas-paperback","title":"Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Martin Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslation has facilitated colonialism from the fifteenth century to the present day. Epistemicide, which involves destroying, marginalizing, or banishing Indigenous, subaltern, and counter-hegemonic knowledges, is one result. In the Americas, it is a racializing process. But in the hands of subaltern translators and interpreters, translation has also been used as a decolonial method. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book gives an account of translation-as-epistemicide in the Americas, drawing on a range of examples from the early colonial period to the War on Terror. The first chapters demonstrate four distinct operations of epistemicide: the commensuration of worlds, the epistemic marginalization of subaltern translators and the knowledge they produce, the criminalization of translators and interpreters, and translation as piracy or extractivism. The second part of the book outlines decolonial translation strategies, including an epistemic posture the author calls \"bewilderment.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslation and Epistemicide\u003c\/i\u003e tracks how through the centuries translation practices have enabled colonialism and resulted in epistemicide, or the destruction of Indigenous and subaltern knowledge.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua M. Price is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, translator, and socio-legal scholar. He has translated Latin American philosophy and writes on race, gender, and state violence. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003ePrison and Social Death.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520627589341,"sku":"9780816554973","price":64.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/siGTX2Z4nC9780816554973.webp?v=1772245221","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/translation-and-epistemicide-racialization-of-languages-in-the-americas-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}