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Sol Rojas Lizana
Sol Rojas-Lizana is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland where she teachers language, literature and cultural studies courses. She holds a MA and PhD from UQ and undergraduate degres from The University of Cape Town and Universidad Metropolitana in Chile. Sol’s main areas of research are Discourse Studies in connection with issues of discrimination, trauma and memory from a decolonial perspective. She has over 50 publications, including four books and five books as a translator. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Semiotics, Critical Discourse Studies, Memory Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Design and Culture, Languages in Contrast, Babel, and JILAR among others. Her co-authored historical Graphic Memoir Historias Clandestinas (2014, 2023) was published in English in 2023 and is currently being made into a film.
Address: School of Languages and Cultures
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Address: School of Languages and Cultures
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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diversas razones ideológicas. El pensamiento decolonial es víctima del epistemicidio en diferentes ámbitos y también ha sido silenciado en el proceso de traducción. En este trabajo demuestro cómo el paradigma de la modernidad se refleja en artículos académicos y especialmente en la traducción al inglés del concepto de Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña o Buen
Vivir expresado en los preámbulos de las constituciones ecuatoriana y
boliviana traducidas por el Instituto Max Planck. Específicamente, examino
cómo la visión antropocéntrica y universalista de la modernidad empaña la postura biocéntrica y localista del pensamiento decolonial.
Palabras clave: Pensamiento decolonial, Estudios críticos de la traducción, Preámbulos constitucionales, Sumak Kawsay / Suma Qamaña.
Manipulation in translation is a historically common phenomenon that is brought about for diverse ideological reasons. Decolonial thought is not only victim to epistemicide but has been silenced in the process of translation. In
this article, I show how Modernity is reflected in academic articles and especially in the English translation of the concept of Sumak Kawsay/Suma
Qamaña or Buen Vivir, as expressed in the preambles of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions translated by the Max Planck Institute. I demonstrate how the anthropocentric and universalist view of modernity does not reflect the biocentric and pluralist proposal of decolonial thought.
Keywords: Decolonial Thought, Critical Translation Studies, Constitutional Preambles, Sumak Kawsay / Suma Qamaña
Moreover, it was revealed that the nature of the visitor’s memory (direct or postmemory) would evidence different reactions to the exhibit experience.
diversas razones ideológicas. El pensamiento decolonial es víctima del epistemicidio en diferentes ámbitos y también ha sido silenciado en el proceso de traducción. En este trabajo demuestro cómo el paradigma de la modernidad se refleja en artículos académicos y especialmente en la traducción al inglés del concepto de Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña o Buen
Vivir expresado en los preámbulos de las constituciones ecuatoriana y
boliviana traducidas por el Instituto Max Planck. Específicamente, examino
cómo la visión antropocéntrica y universalista de la modernidad empaña la postura biocéntrica y localista del pensamiento decolonial.
Palabras clave: Pensamiento decolonial, Estudios críticos de la traducción, Preámbulos constitucionales, Sumak Kawsay / Suma Qamaña.
Manipulation in translation is a historically common phenomenon that is brought about for diverse ideological reasons. Decolonial thought is not only victim to epistemicide but has been silenced in the process of translation. In
this article, I show how Modernity is reflected in academic articles and especially in the English translation of the concept of Sumak Kawsay/Suma
Qamaña or Buen Vivir, as expressed in the preambles of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions translated by the Max Planck Institute. I demonstrate how the anthropocentric and universalist view of modernity does not reflect the biocentric and pluralist proposal of decolonial thought.
Keywords: Decolonial Thought, Critical Translation Studies, Constitutional Preambles, Sumak Kawsay / Suma Qamaña
Moreover, it was revealed that the nature of the visitor’s memory (direct or postmemory) would evidence different reactions to the exhibit experience.
Now, with the English release of "Clandestine Stories," a wider audience can experience these stories of survival, solidarity, doubt, and hope. The book joins the ranks of powerful graphic memoirs like "Maus," "Persepolis," and "March," providing an intimate perspective on some of the most turbulent moments of the 20th century.
La familia que alberga a esta esta pareja estuvo muy comprometida con la resistencia. Esta novela gráfica, a través de bellas ilustraciones en blanco y negro, da cuenta de las actividades cotidianes de esta familia y del estado de aleta en que vivían y de los riesgos que enfrentaban cada día, mientras intentaban llevar una vida “normal”, en una sociedad completamente anormal.
Con un lenguaje simple y conciso, la historia se reconstruye a partir del recuerdo de quienes eran niños en la época, develando el denso y peligroso clima social y político, lo que da mayor relieve al coraje, la entrega y el amor de los que tomaron la decisión de resistir, pese a todo.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: ‘…to make me feel like the outsider’
Chapter 2: Situating Perceived Discrimination Studies
Chapter 3: Analysing Perceived Discrimination in the area of Discourse Studies
Chapter 4: ‘He called me it.’ Perceived Discrimination in the discourse of people identifying as LGBTIQ in Australia
Chapter 5: ‘She said no because I talk funny.’ Perceived Discrimination in the discourse of Spanish speaking immigrants in Australia
Chapter 6: Coping with discrimination: From resistance to avoidance
Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusion ‘…they have no idea what this is like’
Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse publishes high quality original research monographs broadly in the area of critical discourse studies. It seeks theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous research that advances our critical understanding of the interrelations of discourse and social processes, including all aspects of power relations (such as maintenance and perpetuation of dominance; negotiations of power and resistance; as well as solidarity formations for group empowerment). The series supports interdisciplinary research, and welcomes investigations of new topics, domains, issues, frameworks and methods, as well as fresh perspectives on established ones, from a variety of international and cultural contexts. A broad understanding of "discourse" is adopted in the series to include systematic and explicit analyses of spoken/written language and other modes of semiosis (e.g. visual images, sounds, gestures and actions).
In co-constructed interviews interviewers act as facilitators engaging with the
participant in a dialogical situation but foregrounding the role of the interviewee
in the construction and negotiation of meaning. In this chapter I show how the
nature of co-constructed interviews is discursively present in the Perceived
Discrimination discourse of two stigmatised groups in Australia through key
linguistic devices and strategies. The analysis shows the discursive elements
that make co-constructed interactions different from other forms of interviews,
the type of discourse that emerges when the facilitator is an in-group member,
and how it can affect positively the way talk develop. I first present the discursive
strategies used by the interviewers where the strategies of offering their own
experiences as examples would trigger further participation on the part of the
interviewee. Other strategies such as the use of colloquialisms and in-group
nomenclature help to produce a relaxed and informal environment during the
interaction. The respondents on their part resorted to discursive strategies that
included colloquialism, swearing, translanguaging, and in-group terminology.
These all reflect the respondents’ positive dispositions to retell and discuss
their experiences with someone who would understand them, therefore helping
to produce data that allow a deeper understanding of the phenomenon studied
and of the discourses produced.
Keywords: Perceived Discrimination, Latin American immigrants, Australia, Discourse Analysis, Coping
hundreds of entries from the 2016 guest book at the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in
Chile were discursively analysed. Specifically, I have examined the entries that contained the macro
communicative intention of ‘thanking’ with regards to the content and the emotioning the Museum
experience of a traumatic past triggered on the visitors. The voluntary and relatively anonymous
nature of guest books along with the fact that the entries are made immediately after their
experience allows for complex discourses that reveal different types of emotions and reflections.
The results show that people who express gratitude seem to have experienced feelings connected
to a deep level of engagement, identification, humility, and responsibility, which contrast with
other entries that contain other speech acts, such as congratulations. This study informs the areas
of memory studies, museum studies, pragmatics, and discourse studies.
Keywords: Preamble, Decolonial Thought, Discourse Analysis, Constitution, Ecuador, Bolivia
Fecha entrevista: 5 de junio 2018
Duración: 42 minutos
Cámara y realización audiovisual: Cristóbal Aguayo Godoy
Entrevista: Walter Roblero Villalón
Jefa Área de Colecciones e Investigación: María Luisa Ortiz Rojas
Diseño: Pamela Ipinza Mayor
Item 000076 - Testimonio Sol Rojas Lizana
Código (s) de referencia: CL MMDH 00000252-000022-000076
Other advisors: Associate Professor Marisa Cordella-Masini
Principal Advisor
Following the arrival of the Spanish in Mexico and the colonisation of its inhabitants, the Nahuas, Spanish missionaries documented the customs, beliefs and history of the first nations peoples. The Florentine Codex, originally published General history of the things of New Spain, is one of the most detailed records of pre-Hispanic Nahua culture and indigenous accounts of the invasion. Completed between 1579-1585, it was written over approximately 30 years as a part of a collaboration between Nahua scholars and the Franciscan, friar Bernardino de Sahagún. The literature shows that there are opposing views on how this document is to be interpreted, either as a Eurocentric ethnographic study or as an attempt to preserve indigenous culture and knowledge. Drawing from Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ proposal, Epistemologies of the South, this study will attempt to determine Sahagún’s motivations for undertaking this work through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. This analysis will focus on the use of disclaimers in Sahagún’s contributions to the Florentine Codex and how they are used to justify or condemn indigenous language, culture, religion and knowledge. The findings of this investigation will inform future studies on this manuscript and give insight as to how we may approach other colonial manuscripts from Latin America.
Keywords: Florentine Codex; disclaimers; Sahagún; Nnahua; Contact Zones, Epistemologies of the South.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Roberto Esposto Dr Sally Babidge
Other advisors: Dr Guy Ramsay, Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex