Kobus Marais is professor of translation studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language practice of University of the Free State. He has published Translation theory and development studies: A complexity theory approach (2014), A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: The emergence of social-cultural reality (2018), and Translation studies beyond the postcolony (2017; co-edited with Ilse Feinauer).

Reine Meylaerts is full professor of comparative literature and translation studies at KU Leuven. Currently she is vice-rector of research policy (2017-2021). She was director of CETRA from 2006-2014 and is now board member. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics [...]

1. Introduction

Kobus Marais and Reine Meylaerts

2. Intersemiotic translation as an abductive cognitive artifact

João Queiroz and Pedro Atã

3. Resonances between social narrative theory and complexity theory: A potentially rich methodology for translation studies

Sue-Ann Harding

4. "Effects causing effects": Considering constraints in translation

Kobus Marais

5. On the multidimensional interpreter and a theory of possibility: Towards the implementation of a complex methodology in interpreter training

Manuel de la Cruz Recio

6. Exploring the social complexity of translation with assemblage thinking

Emma Seddon

7. Translator networks of networks in digital space: The case of Asymptote Journal

Raluca Tanasescu and Chris Tanasescu

8. A complex and transdisciplinary approach to slow collaborative activist translation

Raúl E. Colón Rodríguez

9. Sacred writings and their translations as complex phenomena: The book of Ben Sira in the Septuagint as a case in point

Jacobus Naude and Cynthia Miller-Naude

10. The complexity of Iran's literary polysystem: An interdisciplinary study

Nasrin Ashrafi

11 .Translation as organized complexity: Implications for translation theory

Maria Tymoczko

12. Knowledge translation and the continuum of science

Caroline Mangerel