Creating New Languages of Resistance

Auteur

Omid Tofighian is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His publications include Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (2016) and translation of Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (2018).

Texte du rabat

Omid Tofighian has been engaged in philosophical, artistic and political work with displaced, exiled and incarcerated peoples for 25 years. Creating New Languages of Resistance is an intellectual and personal reflection on creative resistance; addressesing critical issues pertaining to epistemic injustice, kyriarchy and border violence.

Contenu

Introduction: Translation practice and public philosophy/creative resistance and collective knowledge

1. Translation as Resistance: Creating New Languages Through Collaboration

2. Translation and Public Philosophy: Foundations for New Knowledges

3. Collaboration, Activism, Translation and Storytelling: Revisiting the 23-Day Siege on Manus Prison

4. Translation, Public Philosophy and Creative Work

5. Border-Industrial Complex

Conclusion: More Translator's Reflections