The fourth book in the Traces series brings together an international group of authors to focus on the problems of translation at the crossroads between economics, ontology, and politics in the globalizing world today.

The authors deal, both theoretically and empirically, with the historical obstacles and future opportunities offered by an emerging global order that is still struggling with the legacy of the previous four centuries of Eurocentric capitalist development. The authors amply illustrate that the concept of translation is far from being singularly determined, and how...