Rationality of disability and the sociology of translation

Abstract

Ten per cent of entire world population is comprised of disabled people and around nine million disabled individuals live in Turkey alone. A disabled activist and scholar Vic Finkelstein said "it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disabled people are therefore an oppressed group in society" and emphasized that disability is not only biological but also sociological. As a result of disabled people's movement, a scientific and interdisciplinary field was born titled "Disability Studies". There are numerous disabled individuals working as translators all around the world and methods in the Sociology of Translation can be utilized along with those of Disability Studies to investigate their situation. This chapter analyzes the position, habitus and symbolic capital of two orthopedically disabled translators in the professional field with a Bourdieusian approach. © Peter Lang AG 2019.