Approaches to the sociology of knowledge

Interdisciplinary thinkers at the crossroads of sociology, anthropology, and philosophy, such as Thomas Kuhn, Michel Serres, Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, Manuel Delanda, Elizabeth A. Povinelli or Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, have explicitly or implicitly extended a certain translation(al) model to fields of knowledge beyond the textual one, thereby participating in broadening the concept of (linguistic) translation into an intersemiotic all-encompassing epistemological tool and ontological concept. There are indeed many convergences between translation and knowledge production processes. However, they are little known, little highlighted, and sometimes unintentionally traced. The aim of this chapter is to provide translation scholars with an assemblage of translation(al) theories and concepts from the sociology of knowledge to allow for more interdisciplinary exchange and mutual comprehension

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