This panel looked at the issue of Translation and Traducture on “representation” and images and their impact on development discourse. This follows on from the first panel which addressed knowledge, translation and Traducture from the point of view of the Diaspora. The notions describe not only linguistic, cultural and knowledge translation, but further, addresses issues of deep translation, based on dialogue and a critique of positionality. 

The purpose of the first session, entitled `Maps and their explanations’ is to explore capitalism in India from a regional perspective using geographical tools as maps.

The panel was structured in three sessions: (1) Capital; (2) Labour and (3) Middle Classes and Non-Polar Classes.

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The panel was particularly interested in debating the challenges to European aid policies from new international donors such as Brazil, India or China.

Prabir De, SDC Panel at the Rethinking Development Conference.

By Dr Anand Prathivadi Bhayankaram

Three papers were presented in this panel. What was remarkable was that the three papers had several common denominators in terms of theoretical and conceptual frameworks such as Ostrom’s institutional analysis and design (IAD) framework or in terms of extending and adapting value chain analysis in combination with contextual and other methodological apparati.

by Claude Auroi

In the first paper, Negociating rural development: the role of poor people in the Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy, Sandra Contzen (University of Zurich) argued that participation of the civil society in general and of poor people in specific was a major concern of the Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS).

by Claude Auroi

In the first paper of this session, Social exclusion, social cohesion : defining narratives for development in Latin America, Karem Sanchez de Roldan, (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia) argued that during the last decade and a half an overview of the social scene in Latin America has been annually provided by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).