Uma Kothari

9.5k citations
74 papers · 5.6k · 1 hit paper · h-index 26

Impact in

Papers in

    • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration 8
    • Migration and Labor Dynamics 8
    • Religion, Society, and Development 6
    • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy 5
    • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development 11
    • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs 11

Uma Kothari

67 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Uma Kothari's Hit Papers

Participation: the New Tyranny? 2001 · 3.1k citations
3.1k0+8+16Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

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Uma Kothari
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
  • Development 523
  • Urban Studies 480
  • Business and International Management 136
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.0k
  • Demography 704
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Uma Kothari, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Participation: the New Tyranny?
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Institutions, agency and the limitations of participatory approaches to development.
2001280
3
Power, knowledge and social control in participatory development.
2001263
4 2005219
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A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies
2005156
6 2005137
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Participation as spiritual duty; empowerment as secular subjection.
2001117
8 201385
9 200882
10 201381
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Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives
200275
12 201569
13 200562
14 200660
15
Tourism: gender perspectives.
199459
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Beyond the formulaic: process and practice in South Asian NGOs.
200158
17
Participatory development at the World Bank: the primacy of process.
200157
18 200353
19 200650
20 201038

About Uma Kothari

Uma Kothari is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Development, having authored 74 papers that have together received 5.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (11 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (11 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (8 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 papers), International Development and Aid (6 papers), Religion, Society, and Development (6 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Development (523 citations), Urban Studies (480 citations), Business and International Management (136 citations), Sociology and Political Science (3.0k citations) and Demography (704 citations). Uma Kothari has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Bill Cooke, Alex Arnall, Frances Cleaver, Brett Cooke, Martin Minogue, Anthony Bebbington, R. L. Stirrat, Nicola Phillips, Stephanie Barrientos and Rorden Wilkinson. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of International Development, Progress in Development Studies, Geographical Journal, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Geoforum.

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