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200 10$aAfghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes $eForeignness and the Politics of Evacuation
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215   $a1 online resource (222 pages)
225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Languages at War Series
311 08$aPrint version: Footitt, Hilary Afghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031403828 
327   $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1: Reversing the Gaze -- From Benignity and Positivism to Conflict and the Situated Interpreter -- Afghan Interpreters -- Spaces of Encounter in the Afghan Conflict -- Power Dynamics -- Time and the Interpreter -- Sources and Approaches -- References -- 2: Western Imaginings of Afghanistan -- The Graveyard of Empires -- One Tribe at a Time -- Languages in the Tribal Analysis of Afghanistan -- The West's Knowledge Base About Afghanistan in the Twenty-First Century -- Weaponising 'Culture' -- References -- 3: Spaces of Encounter -- Afghan Employees -- Western Employers -- Recruiting -- Tasks and Working Conditions -- The Location of the Interpreter -- References -- 4: Naming the 'Interpreter': From the NATO Drawdown Until the Evacuation -- The 'Traitor' -- The 'Professional Translator/Interpreter' -- The 'Alien Translator' -- Western Cultures of Protection -- The 'Military Interpreter' -- The 'Civil Servant' -- The 'Honorary Veteran' -- The 'Victim' -- The 'Unnamed Interpreters' -- References -- 5: Evacuation -- The Evacuation of August 2021 -- Initial Priorities for Protection -- Widening the Protection Net -- Identifying Evacuees -- Managing the Evacuation -- Veterans -- Time, Space and Hierarchy -- References -- 6: After the Evacuation -- The Afghans Left Behind -- Spaces of Encounter in the West -- Post-Taliban Afghanistan -- References -- 7: Conclusions -- Contextualising -- The Local Interpreter -- Foreignness -- Evacuation -- Moving Forward -- References -- Index.
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