Spanish For Social Change

social justice movement terminology for interpreters and translators - because more bilingual movements are stronger movements!

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

craftivism: actiartesanismo?!?

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I am totally just making this up.  Has anyone heard any other version being actually used on the ground, not in translation? Artivism is s...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

work to rule: huelga de celo?

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A work slowdown is an operación tortuga, but how would you translate a " work-to-rule " action? Huelga de celo? Trabajar a reglam...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

judicialización (take three)

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I've posted twice before about this term, rendering it as first bogus/trumped up/false criminal charges and then malicious prosecution ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

gremio económico (Col): trade organization

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In the same  interview of a leader in the Dignidad Agropecuaria Colombiana  (Colombian Agricultural Dignity) movement that I mentione...
Monday, February 23, 2015

cacaotero: cacao farmer

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Similarly cafetero is coffee farmer - and my life is made better by both! I was reminded of this term this great interview of a cafetero le...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

pigmentocracy: pigmentocracia

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The research project on ethnicity and race in Latin America ( PERLA ) has published their findings in the new book Pigmentocracies .  I have...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

colorismo: shadeism

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The cognate colourism also exists in English, but shadeism (sometimes spelled shadism ) seems to be more widely used and understood. Thank...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Ya Basta! Enough is enough!

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This translation jumped out at me in the chapter Occupy: prehistories and continuities by Samantha Shakur Bowden. Not sure where she got it...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

interpreting for peace in a conflict zone

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The University of Geneva's interpreting department has a fabulous sounding program called InZone , the Center for Interpreting in Confli...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

caudillo: strong man

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I often hear people keep the term caudillo when going into English.  But many audiences will not understand this term and all of its cultu...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

campaña de desprestigio: smear campaign

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Another great term from the video I posted last week, which is well worth a watch. It's a pleasure to see subtitles so well done. Congra...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

los mayores: the elders

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Great rendition by compa Eric Schwartz in the great video below, also about land grabs in Colombia.  (Ojo, he also renders Proceso de Comun...
Friday, November 7, 2014

despojos: land grabs

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I have previously rendered despojo as disposession, but this rendition could have more impact for political purposes if it fits the context...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

mass sick-out: baja colectiva

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Collins (astounding that they would have a term like this) renders it as baja colectiva por enfermedad como forma de protesta.  It seems to...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

hasta aquí no mas: draw the line

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This is the translation used by the organization Mujer in Toronto for their domestic violence campaign with this title. As part of the camp...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

la hez: the dregs

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As in the dregs of society, la hez de la sociedad. The of 'society' part can get dropped in slang English, as in, 'look at the d...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

capacitar: train

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ok, this is obvious, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who has heard and read the false cognate of capacitate used instead! It might...
Friday, September 26, 2014

feminicidio: feminicide (not femicide)

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femicide and feminicide are two different things as the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission puts it: What is femicide? Femicide is def...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

sanguijuela: bloodsucker

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Amazing debate in the Colombian Congress today about Uribe's paramilitary ties.  I'm in awe and deep gratitude for the courage of ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

despojo: dispossession (with fab music video)

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Gorgeous music video below with some of my all time favorite committed artists: Silvio Rodriguez, calle 13, and Gael García-Bernal, with Eng...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

libreta militar: military passbook

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Young men in Colombia have to show their military passbook to get a job or go to university.  It serves as proof that they have done their ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

casa de pique: chop house

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Really hideous to have to be blogging this term, but it's being used regularly in reports on Buenaventura, Colombia, where there is a se...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

paro civico: general strike

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Strangely, Oxford dictionaries renders this as community protest, but it points to something much larger and wider. You could of course go ...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

grounded: enraizado

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while I'm revising past translations, here's another option for grounded, that I've posted about before as arraigado. Sasana, ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

token woman: mujer simbólica

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I've posted before about the term token, and tokenism , but recently ran across this version of it in a text in Spanish that I think I...
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