The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics, 2nd edition offers a fully updated and comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between translation and politics. This handbook examines the transformative role of translation in political ideas across historical and contemporary contexts. It explores the political nature of translation and interpreting in various social, cultural and institutional settings, showcasing interdisciplinary approaches that examine how translation shapes knowledge production, discourse circulation and epistemic authority.

Divided into four sections and featuring 33 chapters by a leading roster of international scholars, this second edition includes eight new chapters providing rich analysis of established topics such as Marxism and Feminism, alongside emerging themes like artificial intelligence, the Anthropocene, decolonialization, queer politics, and racial solidarity. A new case study explores translation and politics in relation to indigenous struggles in the Australian context. With coverage of areas such as cosmopolitanism, censorship, gender, translation under fascism, translators and interpreters in wartime, translation and policy, the politics of localization, translation and interpreting in democratic movements, and the global travels of popular music, the text offers a broad introduction to the intersections among politics, translation and interpreting studies, and political thought across the humanities and social sciences.

With a substantial introduction, extensive bibliographies and case studies spanning diverse locales and time periods, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation theory, politics and related areas.