The job of brokering is complex. It involves processes of translation, co-ordination
and alignment between perspectives. It requires enough legitimacy to influence the
development of a practice, mobilise attention and address conflicting interests. It also
requires the ability to link practices by facilitating transactions between them, and to
cause learning by introducing into a practice elements of another. Toward this end,
brokering provides a participative connection – not because reification is not involved,
but because what brokers press into service to connect practices is their experience of
multi-membership and the possibilities for negotiation inherent in participation. (Wenger
1998, 189)