Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring translation and interpreting as “practice” Raquel Pacheco Aguilar & Marie-France GuénettePart 1 Translation and Interpreting Practices and Their Political EffectsPerformative Translation and Identity, from Poetics to PoliticsAudrey CanalèsNews Translation as (Re)framing: A Critical Framing Analysis of the 2014 Hong Kong Protests in Reference News Yuan PingA Different Story for a Different Readership: A Skopos Approach to the Translation of Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s Alienación Ellen LambrechtsPart 2 People Involved in Translation Events“Handy, the Middlemen!”: Mediating Afrikaans Literature in the Low Countries Marike van der WattPublishers, Translators, and Literature Foundations: The Selection, Reception, and Image Building of Translated Literature from the Low Countries to ItalyPaola GentileThe Making of a Translator’s Brand in International Literary Exchanges: The “Discoverer” Howard Goldblatt Wenqian ZhangPart 3 The Temporal and Spatial Situatedness of TranslationRestoration Through Historicist Translation Marie-France GuénetteTranslation and Culture Planning in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A Study of State Actors as PlannersEhsan AlipourDeconstructing the Tensions Brought on by Cultivating Translators and InterpretersRaquel Pacheco AguilarIndexTranslation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional trainingTranslating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political constraints. Using the concepts of situatedness and performativity as anchors, the authors examine translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training. As such, the chapters focus on enacted events and conditioned practices by exploring production processes and the social, historical, and cultural conditions of the field. These outlooks shift our attention to social and institutionalized acts of translating and interpreting, considering also the materiality of bodies, artefacts, and technologies involved in these scenes.Translating and interpreting are unpredictable social practices framed by historical, ethical, and political constraints. Using the concepts of situatedness and performativity as anchors, the authors examine translation practices from the perspectives of identity performance, cultural mediation, historical reframing, and professional training. As such, the chapters focus on enacted events and conditioned practices by exploring production processes and the social, historical, and cultural conditions of the field. These outlooks shift our attention to social and institutionalized acts of translating and interpreting, considering also the materiality of bodies, artefacts, and technologies involved in these scenes.