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Citations
15518
World Ranking
789
National Ranking
130

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Uma Kothari is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research centers on fields within the social sciences, with focused subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Anthropology, Development, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • International Development and Aid
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights

Uma Kothari has published consistently in several venues, among the most frequent being:

  • Borderlands Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • World Development
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Uma Kothari include:

  • "COVID-19 and the case for global development" (2020) published in World Development
  • "Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives" (2021) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities" (2020) published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • "Seafarers, the mission and the archive: Affective, embodied and sensory traces of sea-mobilities in Melbourne, Australia" (2021) published in Journal of Historical Geography
  • "Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives" (2023) published in Disasters

Among book publications, Uma Kothari contributed to the EADI global development series with a book titled "Challenging Global Development" published in 2023.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Johan A. Oldekop
  • Rory Horner
  • David Hulme
  • Roshan Adhikari
  • Bina Agarwal

Uma Kothari has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Participation: the New Tyranny?

    Bill Cooke;Uma Kothari

  • Institutions, agency and the limitations of participatory approaches to development.

    F. Cleaver;B. Cooke;U. Kothari

  • The case for participation as tyranny

    B Cooke;U Kothari

  • Power, knowledge and social control in participatory development.

    U. Kothari;B. Cooke

  • Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent

    Uma Kothari

  • A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies

    Uma Kothari

  • An agenda for thinking about 'race' in development

    Uma Kothari

  • COVID-19 and the case for global development

    Johan A. Oldekop;Rory Horner;David Hulme;Roshan Adhikari

  • Participation as spiritual duty; empowerment as secular subjection.

    H. Henkel;R. Stirrat;B. Cooke;U. Kothari

  • Tourism: gender perspectives.

    V. Kinnaird;U. Kothari;D. R. Hall;D. Hall

  • Global Peddlers and Local Networks: Migrant Cosmopolitanisms

    Uma Kothari

  • Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives

    Uma Kothari;Martin Minogue

  • Dynamics of Unfree Labour in the Contemporary Global Economy

    Stephanie Barrientos;Uma Kothari;Nicola Phillips

  • Development Theory and Practice

    Uma Kothari;Martin Minogue

  • Participatory development at the World Bank: the primacy of process.

    P. Francis;B. Cooke;U. Kothari

  • Transnational development networks

    Anthony Bebbington;Uma Kothari

  • Beyond the formulaic: process and practice in South Asian NGOs.

    J. Hailey;B. Cooke;U. Kothari

  • Migration and Chronic Poverty

    Uma Kothari

  • Political discourses of climate change and migration: resettlement policies in the Maldives

    Uma Kothari

  • Spatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and development professionals

    Uma Kothari

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University
Rorden Wilkinson
Rorden Wilkinson Macquarie University
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London
Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Richard Heeks
Richard Heeks University of Manchester
Lesley Head
Lesley Head University of Melbourne
Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal University of Manchester

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