Titlebook: Afghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes; Foreignness and the Hilary Footitt Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), un

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Corrosion in Different Environments,y had been in Afghanistan, lost both the professional and military identities which had marked them out before 2021, becoming instead part of a larger mass of ‘immigrants’. In the western imagination, post-Taliban Afghanistan was perceived as a catastrophe, its peoples plunged into hunger and penury

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Spaces of Encounter,ern ‘Zombie narratives’ (de Witte, 2021) of the historical impossibility of ever ‘winning’ a war in Afghanistan and the counter-insurgency tactics the West employed collided violently with legacies of internal strife within the community, and the growing rejection of the western presence. The twenty

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Conclusions,e war, culminating finally with encounters between them at the frontiers of the West, and then within its very borders. Whether the risk of reversing the gaze in this way has ultimately been worth taking depends on what we in the West might be able to learn about employing translator/interpreters in war and about representing the foreign ‘other’.

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Book 2023tent the representations reflect distinct rationales for intervention/historic relationships with Afghanistan, specific immigration and anti-terrorism policies, and notions of citizenship. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, history, war studies, and migration studies.

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Hasan Al Abdulgader,Sayeed Rushdthey enjoyed with the peoples of Afghanistan. Whether these relationships were incidental and transactional, or longer lasting and personal, the figure of the Afghan interpreter became both a conduit for western impressions of Afghanistan and a key symbol of Afghanistan for the West.

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Thermodynamics - Equilibrium Potentials,qi refugees, national schemes were in all cases implicitly light touch, predicated on minimising the direct responsibility of the government concerned. The key was to ‘manage expectations’ and make clear to Afghans that ‘we will not just give you an open-ended ability to come back to (the NATO country)’ (Lopresti, 2017, Q.102).