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Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories

March 1, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Details

Date:
March 1, 2023
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Venue

The Bridge Room THB-1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway

Organizers

Prof. Anne O’Connor anne.oconnor@universityofgalway.ie
Dr Andrea Ciribuco andrea.ciribuco@universityofgalway.ie
Dr Lorna Shaughnessy lorna.shaughnessy@nuigalway.ie

“Translation amid Uncertainty: Online Activist Subtitling of Counter-ISIS Stories”

 

Abstract:

In our contemporary world, different moments of uncertainty are created out of conflicts, revolutions or crises, eliminating our conventional sense of territory. Though these moments are full of hardships and sufferings, they carry with them off-line and on-line innovative cultural productions that contest oppressive and conventional voices. Activist translation/subtitling takes part in re-telling these marginal experiences and knowledge across the globe in pursue of solidarity. The post-Arab Spring period has witnessed that kind of cultural activity where translation/subtitling was key in expressing alternative voices. A case of such is activist subtitling of counter-jihadist discourse to fight the current of global jihadism that re-emerged in a new face: the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014. Two Youtube channels (Daya alTaseh and The Bigh daddy Show) produced videos mocking ISIS in Arabic subtitled in English. The subtitling of both video productions is scrutinized to explore how it retells their distinct counter-ISIS stories.