Kaisa Koskinen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1365348 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kaisa Koskinen |
| NOMBRES | Kaisa |
| APELLIDO | Koskinen |
| FIRMA | KOSKINEN K |
| AFILIACIONES | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2152-2388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Retranslating Lenin. Postmodern ambivalence in the Tampere Lenin Museum 2016–2024
Museums are mnemonic institutions, aiming to preserve and remember, but they also select what to remember and how. Retranslation is a similar activity of preserving and renewing. In this article, these two are connected through reading the revised exhibition of the Lenin Museum in Tampere (2016–2024) as a retranslation that followed the first exhibition (1946–2016), targeting new audiences in a new political, social, and cultural context. The art…
Käännöskoneesta performatiivisuuteen
”Olivatko Marx ja Engels väärässä”, kysyy Mikko Lahtinen Kommunistisen manifestin viimeisimmän suomennoksen jälkisanoissa (1890/2016). Monessa epäilemättä olivat, mutta yksi manifestin perusajatus tuntuu kestävältä: ”Kunkin historian kauden taloudellinen tuotanto ja siitä juontuva yhteiskuntarakenne muodostavat perustan tuon kauden poliittiselle ja intellektuaaliselle historialle” (mt., 61). Myös manifestin I osan kuvaus yhteiskuntarakenteesta o…
Affect as a hinge
Affect, understood here as embodied meaning-making, offers one useful point of departure in studying translation as an activity that involves both cognitive and social processes, because it functions as a hinge between subjective understandings and social environments. We approach affects related to translating with the theoretical framework of the translator’s experiencing self, defined here as the perception that translators have of themselves,…
Wielogłos w serii przekładowej. Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century
Many Voices in Retranslation. A Review of Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century This article is a review of Jolanta Wawrzycka and Erika Mihálycsa’s edited volume Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century (European Joyce Studies 30, Brill/ Rodopi, 2021). It discusses a number of core issues raised in the book, starting from the observation that 21st century translations of Joyce’s work are by necessity retranslations, and that this necessarily m…
Pym, Anthony. 2012. On translator ethics. Principles for mediation between cultures
pp. 165-177, with the original page breaks indicated in square brackets. Revisiting the text now, in 2010, I am a little surprised to note the extent to which it was read as being overly "sarcastic" (Munday 2001: 155), as poking fun merely for the sake of fun. At the time, in 1995-96, I sincerely appreciated Venuti's work for the intellectual space it legitimized: I would have hoped that the last sentence of my article would carry significantly m…
Shared culture
Ever since the “cultural turn” in Translation Studies it has been commonplace to state that translation is an act of cultural mediation. However, the concept of culture as such has remained elusive. A number of questions remain unanswered: How can we define a culture? What kind of empirical evidence is needed to prove the existence of a particular culture? Looking for answers, I start with a personal note, with my own previous attempt at conceptu…
New Directions for retranslations research
Neste artigo, discutimos a fase arqueológica de nossa pesquisa acerca da retradução no sistema literário finlandês. Abordamos a questão do ponto de vista dos desenvolvimentos passados e futuros da pesquisa em retradução, com foco na metodologia. Defendemos que, para que nossa compreensão do fenômeno avance, a orientação tradicional para os estudos de caso na pesquisa em retradução deve ser complementada por outras abordagem, em macroníveis. Discu…
Institutional translation
The article aims to identify the sources of disunity between different usages of ‘institutional translation’ and to propose a clarifying foundation for the concept. It argues that the core function of institutions as regulatory organizational systems is to govern, and in a multilingual environment they can and often do employ translation in performing their governing function. In that case, they govern by translation. To better understand the nat…
Social media and the institutional illusions of EU communication
Fifteen years ago, the illusions of equality and equivalence were identified as cornerstones of EU translation. This paper revisits these concepts from a contemporary point of view. Several new official languages have been introduced, a new communication policy has been adopted, and social media tools have entered the field of EU communication. Particular emphasis is placed on virtual linguistic landscapes in the EU blogosphere and social media n…
Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated
Rapidly declining biodiversity may be a contributing factor to another global megatrend—the rapidly increasing prevalence of allergies and other chronic inflammatory diseases among urban populations worldwide. According to the “biodiversity hypothesis,” reduced contact of people with natural environmental features and biodiversity may adversely affect the human commensal microbiota and its immunomodulatory capacity. Analyzing atopic sensitization…
Public Translation Studies in the Classroom
This article describes a case study where students of an MA-level research methods course were invited to engage in a participatory learning experience in the spirit of critical pedagogy. During the course, the matrix originally designed by Michael Burawoy to describe the four fields of sociology (professional, critical, policy and public sociology) was presented and adapted to translation studies. The notion of public translation studies was the…
What matters to Translation Studies
In this article, the field of Translation Studies is mapped with the help of a matrix developed by Michael Burawoy for sociology. His four fields of professional, critical, policy and public sociology are used to chart similar trends in TS. Burawoy argues for a more visible engagement in public sociology. This paper argues for a similar focus on public Translation Studies
Reprocessing texts. The fine line between retranslating and revising
Retranslations are a frequent object of study in Translation Studies. They can be used as data for a number of research problems, or retranslation can be studied as a phenomenon on its own. There are no large-scale surveys on retranslation, however, let alone surveys that would be coupled with in-depth case studies, no doubt due to the laboriousness and complexity of the task. Our own interest in the issue started from a small-scale project testi…
Managing Trust
In order to understand recent developments in the field of professional translation, we focus in this article on the contemporary network-based translation industry using Albert-Lázsló Barabási's model of real-world networks and combining it with sociological studies of social capital and trust. According to Barabási, networks are scale-free and therefore fundamentally undemocratic. Barabási's findings can be used not only by researchers in expla…
Removal by Sorption and In Situ Biodegradation of Oil Spills Limits Damage to Marine Biota
This study examined the efficiency of cotton grass fibers in removing diesel oil from the surface of water in conditions prevailing in the Baltic Sea. The effect of low temperature, salinity, and bacterial amendments were tested in laboratory-scale set-ups, whereas 600-L mesocosms filled with Baltic Sea water were used for testing the effects of diesel oil and rapid removal of the oil on microorganisms, phytoplankton, and mussels. Cotton grass pr…
(Mis)Translating the Untranslatable
Bien que le déconstructionnisme déclare la traduction impossible à réaliser, il peut être utile aux études traductologiques. Par exemple, il servira d'outil pour résoudre certaines oppositions classiques entre traduction mot à mot et traduction libre, texte original et texte traduit. Sans prétendre vouloir bâtir une nouvelle théorie de la traduction à partir du déconstructionnisme, l'auteur démontre que certains faits qui paraissent évidents et p…
How to research EU translation
When applied to the practice of translating for the European institutions, several central concepts of translation studies are seen in a different light. Work at these institutions reveal unexpected complexities which have implications for translation theory. Researching EU translation can thus be used as a test case against which to measure and refine the theoretical apparatus of translation theory. At the same time, research can support practic…
Social media and the institutional illusions of EU communication
Fifteen years ago, the illusions of equality and equivalence were identified as cornerstones of EU translation. This paper revisits these concepts from a contemporary point of view. Several new official languages have been introduced, a new communication policy has been adopted, and social media tools have entered the field of EU communication. Particular emphasis is placed on virtual linguistic landscapes in the EU blogosphere and social media n…
Institutional translation
The article aims to identify the sources of disunity between different usages of ‘institutional translation’ and to propose a clarifying foundation for the concept. It argues that the core function of institutions as regulatory organizational systems is to govern, and in a multilingual environment they can and often do employ translation in performing their governing function. In that case, they govern by translation. To better understand the nat…
Managing Trust
In order to understand recent developments in the field of professional translation, we focus in this article on the contemporary network-based translation industry using Albert-Lázsló Barabási's model of real-world networks and combining it with sociological studies of social capital and trust. According to Barabási, networks are scale-free and therefore fundamentally undemocratic. Barabási's findings can be used not only by researchers in expla…
How to research EU translation
When applied to the practice of translating for the European institutions, several central concepts of translation studies are seen in a different light. Work at these institutions reveal unexpected complexities which have implications for translation theory. Researching EU translation can thus be used as a test case against which to measure and refine the theoretical apparatus of translation theory. At the same time, research can support practic…
(Mis)Translating the Untranslatable
Bien que le déconstructionnisme déclare la traduction impossible à réaliser, il peut être utile aux études traductologiques. Par exemple, il servira d'outil pour résoudre certaines oppositions classiques entre traduction mot à mot et traduction libre, texte original et texte traduit. Sans prétendre vouloir bâtir une nouvelle théorie de la traduction à partir du déconstructionnisme, l'auteur démontre que certains faits qui paraissent évidents et p…
How to research EU translation
When applied to the practice of translating for the European institutions, several central concepts of translation studies are seen in a different light. Work at these institutions reveal unexpected complexities which have implications for translation theory. Researching EU translation can thus be used as a test case against which to measure and refine the theoretical apparatus of translation theory. At the same time, research can support practic…
(Mis)Translating the Untranslatable
Bien que le déconstructionnisme déclare la traduction impossible à réaliser, il peut être utile aux études traductologiques. Par exemple, il servira d'outil pour résoudre certaines oppositions classiques entre traduction mot à mot et traduction libre, texte original et texte traduit. Sans prétendre vouloir bâtir une nouvelle théorie de la traduction à partir du déconstructionnisme, l'auteur démontre que certains faits qui paraissent évidents et p…
Removal by Sorption and In Situ Biodegradation of Oil Spills Limits Damage to Marine Biota
This study examined the efficiency of cotton grass fibers in removing diesel oil from the surface of water in conditions prevailing in the Baltic Sea. The effect of low temperature, salinity, and bacterial amendments were tested in laboratory-scale set-ups, whereas 600-L mesocosms filled with Baltic Sea water were used for testing the effects of diesel oil and rapid removal of the oil on microorganisms, phytoplankton, and mussels. Cotton grass pr…
Managing Trust
In order to understand recent developments in the field of professional translation, we focus in this article on the contemporary network-based translation industry using Albert-Lázsló Barabási's model of real-world networks and combining it with sociological studies of social capital and trust. According to Barabási, networks are scale-free and therefore fundamentally undemocratic. Barabási's findings can be used not only by researchers in expla…
What matters to Translation Studies
In this article, the field of Translation Studies is mapped with the help of a matrix developed by Michael Burawoy for sociology. His four fields of professional, critical, policy and public sociology are used to chart similar trends in TS. Burawoy argues for a more visible engagement in public sociology. This paper argues for a similar focus on public Translation Studies
Reprocessing texts. The fine line between retranslating and revising
Retranslations are a frequent object of study in Translation Studies. They can be used as data for a number of research problems, or retranslation can be studied as a phenomenon on its own. There are no large-scale surveys on retranslation, however, let alone surveys that would be coupled with in-depth case studies, no doubt due to the laboriousness and complexity of the task. Our own interest in the issue started from a small-scale project testi…
Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated
Rapidly declining biodiversity may be a contributing factor to another global megatrend—the rapidly increasing prevalence of allergies and other chronic inflammatory diseases among urban populations worldwide. According to the “biodiversity hypothesis,” reduced contact of people with natural environmental features and biodiversity may adversely affect the human commensal microbiota and its immunomodulatory capacity. Analyzing atopic sensitization…
Public Translation Studies in the Classroom
This article describes a case study where students of an MA-level research methods course were invited to engage in a participatory learning experience in the spirit of critical pedagogy. During the course, the matrix originally designed by Michael Burawoy to describe the four fields of sociology (professional, critical, policy and public sociology) was presented and adapted to translation studies. The notion of public translation studies was the…
Social media and the institutional illusions of EU communication
Fifteen years ago, the illusions of equality and equivalence were identified as cornerstones of EU translation. This paper revisits these concepts from a contemporary point of view. Several new official languages have been introduced, a new communication policy has been adopted, and social media tools have entered the field of EU communication. Particular emphasis is placed on virtual linguistic landscapes in the EU blogosphere and social media n…
Institutional translation
The article aims to identify the sources of disunity between different usages of ‘institutional translation’ and to propose a clarifying foundation for the concept. It argues that the core function of institutions as regulatory organizational systems is to govern, and in a multilingual environment they can and often do employ translation in performing their governing function. In that case, they govern by translation. To better understand the nat…
New Directions for retranslations research
Neste artigo, discutimos a fase arqueológica de nossa pesquisa acerca da retradução no sistema literário finlandês. Abordamos a questão do ponto de vista dos desenvolvimentos passados e futuros da pesquisa em retradução, com foco na metodologia. Defendemos que, para que nossa compreensão do fenômeno avance, a orientação tradicional para os estudos de caso na pesquisa em retradução deve ser complementada por outras abordagem, em macroníveis. Discu…
Affect as a hinge
Affect, understood here as embodied meaning-making, offers one useful point of departure in studying translation as an activity that involves both cognitive and social processes, because it functions as a hinge between subjective understandings and social environments. We approach affects related to translating with the theoretical framework of the translator’s experiencing self, defined here as the perception that translators have of themselves,…
Wielogłos w serii przekładowej. Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century
Many Voices in Retranslation. A Review of Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century This article is a review of Jolanta Wawrzycka and Erika Mihálycsa’s edited volume Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century (European Joyce Studies 30, Brill/ Rodopi, 2021). It discusses a number of core issues raised in the book, starting from the observation that 21st century translations of Joyce’s work are by necessity retranslations, and that this necessarily m…
Pym, Anthony. 2012. On translator ethics. Principles for mediation between cultures
pp. 165-177, with the original page breaks indicated in square brackets. Revisiting the text now, in 2010, I am a little surprised to note the extent to which it was read as being overly "sarcastic" (Munday 2001: 155), as poking fun merely for the sake of fun. At the time, in 1995-96, I sincerely appreciated Venuti's work for the intellectual space it legitimized: I would have hoped that the last sentence of my article would carry significantly m…
Shared culture
Ever since the “cultural turn” in Translation Studies it has been commonplace to state that translation is an act of cultural mediation. However, the concept of culture as such has remained elusive. A number of questions remain unanswered: How can we define a culture? What kind of empirical evidence is needed to prove the existence of a particular culture? Looking for answers, I start with a personal note, with my own previous attempt at conceptu…
Käännöskoneesta performatiivisuuteen
”Olivatko Marx ja Engels väärässä”, kysyy Mikko Lahtinen Kommunistisen manifestin viimeisimmän suomennoksen jälkisanoissa (1890/2016). Monessa epäilemättä olivat, mutta yksi manifestin perusajatus tuntuu kestävältä: ”Kunkin historian kauden taloudellinen tuotanto ja siitä juontuva yhteiskuntarakenne muodostavat perustan tuon kauden poliittiselle ja intellektuaaliselle historialle” (mt., 61). Myös manifestin I osan kuvaus yhteiskuntarakenteesta o…
Retranslating Lenin. Postmodern ambivalence in the Tampere Lenin Museum 2016–2024
Museums are mnemonic institutions, aiming to preserve and remember, but they also select what to remember and how. Retranslation is a similar activity of preserving and renewing. In this article, these two are connected through reading the revised exhibition of the Lenin Museum in Tampere (2016–2024) as a retranslation that followed the first exhibition (1946–2016), targeting new audiences in a new political, social, and cultural context. The art…
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