Uma Kothari
Uma Kothari is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the "Institute for Development Policy and Management" (School of Environment and Development; University of Manchester). Kothari got numerous research grants and is currently working on her research project „Political Exiles and Colonial Policies in Indian Ocean“. Among other universities, she researched at the Flinders University (Australia) and the University of Mauritius. Kothari is editor and author of many well-known publications of postcolonial research like „Participation: the new tyranny?“ (2001) [Co-editor B. Cooke) and “A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies” (2005). Furthermore, she published numerous articles in well reputed journals like Third World Quarterly, Progress in Development Studies and Journal Of International Development.
Joseph Hodge
Hodge, Joseph Morgan is Associate Professor of Modern British and British Imperial History in the Department of History at West Virginia University in Morgantown. He is the author of "Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism", published in 2007, and he is the editor, along with Brett Bennett, of "Knowledge and Networks: Scientific Networks across the British
Empire, 1800-1970" (forthcoming). Joseph Hodge has also published several articles in leading historical journals including the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Agricultural History, and the Journal of Modern European History. He is currently working on a book that examines the transition from late colonialism to the early postcolonial era by charting the lives and careers of the many British colonial officials hired after the Second World War, who went on to work for various international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, or for British donor agencies and consultancy firms, after they retired from the colonial service.