ABSTRACT
Preceding chapters have depicted actors at work in and around the Mekong River Basin in a range of postures: planning, governing, managing, evaluating. This chapter will focus on a common dimension of those operations, namely the practice of making the Mekong River Basin – and relations among its people – visible. More precisely, the chapter will highlight the proliferation of an expectation and rhetoric of transparency in the Mekong River Basin and explore some of its rival understandings and implications.
