Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical approaches to brokerage and translation in development / David Mosse and David Lewis -- Aid policies and recipient strategies i n Niger : why donors and recipients should not be compartmentalized int o separate "worlds of knowledge" / Benedetta Rossi -- Resources, ideolo gies, and nationalism : the politics of development in Malaysia / Amity A. Doolittle -- Governing land, translating rights : the rural land pl an in Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Translating, interpreting, and pra cticing civil society in Vietnam : a tale of calculated misunderstandin gs / Oscar Salemink -- Brokering fair trade relations between coffee co operatives and alternative trade organizations : a view from Costa Rica / Peter Luetchford -- Ethnographic research in a non-governmental orga nization : 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 l ike we can" : bracketing differences and the professionalization of NGO s in Nepal / Celayne Heaton Shrestha -- Rethinking the mechanics of the "anti-politics machine" / Tim Bending and Sergio Rosendo.