Interpreting and Translating Transnational Activism

This chapter takes the case of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) to discuss the relevance of translation and interpretation for transnational political movements. It asks how the IWSA dealt with the diversity of languages among their delegates and analyses the (at times entangled) roles of the interpreters and journalists in the context of the regular transnational conferences and on the board of the organisation. The chapter gauges how translation was used to facilitate the transfer of political arguments, but also helped to reinforce hierarchies of cultures and languages.