Books by Uma Kothari

Uma Kothari is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. She has carried out research in India and Mauritius and her research interests include histories and theories of development, colonial and post-colonial discourse, social development and migration and development. She is co-editor of Participation: The New Tyranny? (Zed Books, 2001, with B. Cooke) and Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives (2002, with M. Minogue). She has recently published the chapter 'Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort' (2003) in M. Lasansky and B. McClaren (eds), Architecture and Tourism (with T. Edensor), edited a special issue of Journal of International Development on 'Migration, Staying Put and Poverty' (2003) and published 'Authority and expertise: the professionalisation of international development and the ordering of dissent' in Antipode (2005).