Uma Kothari is a development consultant, trained originally as a geographer, and now teaching at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. She has conducted research in various parts of the world, including India, Central America and parts of West [...] is currently co-director of a DfID-funded project, Social Development: Systems for Coordinated Poverty Eradication. She has contributed chapters to various books in recent years.

Bill Cooke lectures in Human Resources Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. He specialises in various aspects of management, having begun his career as a management consultant in the public sector in Britain. He subsequently set up his own consultancy business, and became a business school academic in 1992.

1. The Case for Participation as Tyranny - Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari
2. 'People's Knowledge', Participation and Patronage: Operations and Representations in Rural Development - David Mosse
3. Institutions, Agency and the Limitations of Participatory Approaches to Development - Frances Cleaver
4. Pluralism, Participation and Power: Joint Forest Management in India - Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolvekamp, Somasekhare Reddy
5. Participatory Development at the World Bank: The Primacy of Process - Paul Francis
6. Beyond the Formulaic: Process and Practice in South Asian NGOs - John Hailey
7. The Social-Psychological Limits of Participation? - Bill Cooke
8. Insights into Participation from Critical Management and Labour Process Perspectives - Harry Taylor
9. Participatory Development: Power, Knowledge and Social Control - Uma Kothari
10. Beyond Participation: Strategies for Deeper Empowerment - Giles Mohan
11. Participation as Spiritual Duty: Empowerment as Secular Subjection - Heiko Henkel and Roderick Stirrat
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