Abstract
Discourse between development agents and nomads implies that development for nomadic communities is a contradiction in terms. Two systems, the nomadic and the development system, interact and exist in conflict. Discourses of sedentarization and associative life threaten pastoral adaptive strategies. Within these discourses, a market‐oriented subtext underscores investors' power, brokers' competition, and clients' opportunism. Semistructured and informal interviews focused on relations between Woδaaöe communities, local pastoral organizations, government technical services, and international agencies. This paper examines communication between these parties through approaches of agency, political ecology, and disequilibrium theory. How will the social change instigated by development affect cultural mechanisms that facilitate resource access and allocation? Will development become too costly for pastoral households, local ecology, and even the national economy?.
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