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Beyond Translation: Reconceptualizing the Role of Local Practitioners and the Development ‘Interface’

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  • Mette F Olwig

    (Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark)

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Cet article contribue à la recherche croissante sur les professionnels du développement local en mettant en question les conceptualisations de ces praticiens en tant que « courtiers » opérant une traduction stratégique entre les rationalités « mobiles » de développement et les rationalités « fixes » des bénéficiaires, en rapport avec l’«interface» de développement. Il soutient qu’en raison de tendances inconscientes liées à l’essor d’une tradition de développement, les praticiens du développement local ont pris l’habitude de mobiliser plusieurs rationalités à la fois. Sur la base d’un travail de terrain effectué dans le nord du Ghana, dans le contexte de l’évolution du discours, de la politique et de la pratique de développement devant les nouveaux défis découlant des inquiétudes liées au changement climatique, l’étude montre comment les praticiens locaux font souvent correspondre les activités locales à des rationalités de développement mobiles plus par habitude que dans le cadre d’une stratégie consciente. Il est par conséquent possible qu’ils cessent de jouer leur rôle de traducteurs entre des rationalités différentes. Cela a des implications importantes pour la théorie, la recherche et la pratique en matière de réduction des risques de catastrophe et d’adaptation au changement climatique, dans lesquelles cette traduction est souvent attendue.

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  • Mette F Olwig, 2013. "Beyond Translation: Reconceptualizing the Role of Local Practitioners and the Development ‘Interface’," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 25(3), pages 428-444, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:25:y:2013:i:3:p:428-444
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    1. Louise Mubanda Rasmussen, 2017. "In the Name of Sustainability: Contradictory Effects of NGO-Driven Development in Malawi," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 29(2), pages 312-327, April.
    2. Olwig, Mette Fog, 2021. "Sustainability superheroes? For-profit narratives of “doing good” in the era of the SDGs," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).

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