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Development brokers and translators : the ethnography of aid and agencies
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Development brokers and translators : the ethnography of aid and agencies

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"Contributions to a conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London between 26 and 28 September 2003 entitled, Order and disjuncture; the organization of aid and development"--p. xiii.

Contents

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.

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