Contracts and capabilities: public service interpreting and third sector domestic violence services

摘要: ABSTRACTThis article evaluates the role played by professional and non-professional volunteer interpreters in care trajectories institutional itineraries of survivors domestic abuse third sector is informed Martha C. Nussbaum’s capabilities approach to contractarian theory. Reporting on a case study involving an organisation North West England, it sheds light how interpreter provision supports converting into effective social participation, extent which are able influence initial contract position relation language services provision. It finds that rather than being used as replacement for interpreting, nonprofessional support ways help them achieve range service outcomes. Further, evolving contractual places demands limit their interaction user prepares move ...