Transferring the international DRR policy into the local context

dc.authorid Erkan, Nihal Ekin/0000-0003-2557-7116
dc.authorscopusid 38861407100
dc.authorscopusid 38861319700
dc.authorwosid Erkan, Nihal Ekin/AAA-5042-2021
dc.contributor.author Daldeniz, Elif
dc.contributor.author Erkan, Nihal Ekin
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-25T11:25:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-25T11:25:15Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.department Okan University en_US
dc.department-temp [Daldeniz, Elif] Okan Univ, Dept Translat Studies, Istanbul, Turkey; [Erkan, Nihal Ekin] Marmara Univ, Vocat Sch Social Sci, Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description Erkan, Nihal Ekin/0000-0003-2557-7116 en_US
dc.description.abstract The disaster experiences of the past resulted in the need for a new international policy. The paper examines the transfer of the international policy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) into a local context, Turkey and Turkish, where new and old perspectives meet. Analyzed is a corpus consisting of two texts, with the purpose of examining the concepts' actual use and contexts shaped by different attitudes, based on the three-dimensional framework of critical discourse analysis, translation studies and conceptual history. The concept transfer from international to the local level inevitably involves translation. The texts included "new" DRR terms as a result of the concealed translation attempts to adjust the old and contemporary terminologies. Thus, non-functional terms with blurred meanings arose. The awareness that such processes of transfer are complex would help to overcome this kind of simplistic top-down approaches and to give priority to "communicative labor." The framework is not presented due to space limitations. It was also observed that the Turkish terminology lacks clear definitions. To affirm this, an in-depth analysis is needed. Terms transferred across contexts may end lacking conceptualizations due to non-functional translation choices. When adopting new social policies, this can be overcome through making effort for communication. This research looks at conceptual struggles related to social issues from a different aspect. The vague terms and inefficiencies in social implementations can be avoided by authorities being aware that discourse, translation and their production are parts of social action. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) [110K 406] en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This paper is part of the Project No. 110K 406 funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). Preliminary research results have been presented during the 10th ESA Conference Social Relations in Turbulent Times held in Geneva on September 7-10, 2011, and during the conference on "Construction et Gouvernance Locales des Risques Urbains'' held in Istanbul on March 1-2, 2012. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 1
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s11069-012-0494-9
dc.identifier.endpage 1285 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0921-030X
dc.identifier.issue 2 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84874197470
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 1273 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-012-0494-9
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/866
dc.identifier.volume 66 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000315166100060
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Diğer en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 1
dc.subject Disaster risk reduction en_US
dc.subject Transfer of concepts en_US
dc.subject Translation studies Urban studies en_US
dc.subject Critical discourse analysis en_US
dc.subject Transfer of international policies en_US
dc.title Transferring the international DRR policy into the local context en_US
dc.type Review en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 0

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