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From Brunett's review of Encylclopedia:

Their translations, he suggests, 'exist where otherwise there would be silence'. The perspective that this statement endorses distinguishes a new, positive approach to the activity of translation, which has contributed so crucially to the establishment of Translation Studies as a discipline, from the earlier, and negative, view that held translation to be at best derivative or at worst deviant. It is, of course, a similar turning of the tables that has ensured success in the construction of other new paradigms such as Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies. In this respect, the entry in this encyclopedia on TRANSLATION STUDIES itself is both a rallying call for the further strengthening of the discipline, and a judicious warning that 'there can be no benefit in setting various approaches in opposition to each other nor in resisting the integration of insights achieved through the application of various tools of research, whatever the origins'. The importance of the issue is underscored by the fact that the piece is written by the editor, Mona Baker. "