Development brokers and translators
Subtitle: the ethnography of aid and agencies
By: edited by David Lewis and David Mosse.
Contributors: Lewis, David, 1960 June 2-; Mosse, David.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomfield, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781565492172
Subjects: Applied anthropology -- Research; Applied anthropology -- Methodology; Rural development projects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical approaches to brokerage and translation in development / David Mosse and David Lewis; title: Aid policies and recipient strategies in Niger : why donors and recipients should not be compartmentalized into separate "worlds of knowledge" / Benedetta Rossi; title: Resources, ideologies, and nationalism : the politics of development in Malaysia / Amity A. Doolittle; title: Governing land, translating rights : the rural land plan in Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur; title: Translating, interpreting, and practicing civil society in Vietnam : a tale of calculated misunderstandings / Oscar Salemink; title: Brokering fair trade relations between coffee cooperatives and alternative trade organizations : a view from Costa Rica / Peter Luetchford; title: Ethnographic research in a nongovernmental organization : revealing strategic translations through an embedded tale / Wiebe Nauta; title: Inside out : rationalizing practices and representations in agricultural development projects / Bina Desai; title: "They can't mix like we can" : bracketing differences and the professionalization; title: Of NGOs in Nepal / Celayne Heaton Shrestha; title: Rethinking the mechanics of the "anti-politics machine" / Tim Bending and Sergio Rosendo.