Development Brokers and Translators: the Ethnography of Aid and Agencies

Abstract

Theoretical approaches to brokerage and translation in development / David Mosse and David Lewis -- Aid policies and recipient strategies in Niger : why donors and recipients should not be compartmentalized into separate worlds of knowledge / Benedetta Rossi -- Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in Malaysia / Amity A. Doolittle -- Governing land, translating rights : the rural land plan in Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Translating, interpreting, and practicing civil society in Vietnam : a tale of calculated misunderstandings / Oscar Salemink -- Brokering fair trade relations between coffee cooperatives and alternative trade organizations : a view from Costa Rica / Peter Luetchford -- Ethnographic research in a non-governmental organization : revealing strategic translations through an embedded tale / Wiebe Nauta -- Inside out : rationalizing practices and representations in agricultural development projects / Bina Desai -- They can't mix like we can : bracketing differences and the professionalization of NGOs in Nepal / Celayne Heaton Shrestha -- Rethinking the mechanics of the anti-politics machine / Tim Bending and Sergio Rosendo.