Translational Processes as a Research Object and Premise. A Research-Practical Approach to Interpreted Help Plan Discussions

Despite their constitutive character, translation processes do not receive particular attention either in the increasingly multilingual contexts of action in child and youth welfare or in their social scientific exploration. But especially when interpreting and translating services form both the object of research and a central component of the research process itself, the reflexive examination of them is of essential importance. This article explores this on the basis of a research project on interpreted help plan discussions. It sheds light on the hitherto hardly illuminated intersection between translation processes as a research object and as part of one’s own research practice, in order to sensitize for the (im)possibilities of a practical approach to research and to reveal its epistemological potential.