ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the conceptualization of development studies and try to move the debate on translation and development forward by including intersemiotic translation and the emergence of social and cultural phenomena by means of translation. In addition to a brief overview of current work on translation and development, it considers issues of methodology and possibilities for future research on translation and development. Development studies originated in the late 1960s in the UK as a field of study in which economics, political science and sociology were originally involved in an interdisciplinary attempt to think about development. For some reason, however, until translation has not been conceptualized in relation to the field of development studies or, put differently, development as an environmental constraint has not been theorized in translation studies. Development studies seem to provide conceptual tools for translation-studies scholars to study translation as a complex process.
