Uma Kothari

Disaster mobilities, temporalities and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives.

Uma Kothari, Alex Arnall, Aishath Azfa

Journal article  |  2023  |  Disasters

The moment of the tsunami Allah had never given us a more beautiful and calmer day. There was no wind, no clouds. But I had an une..

Storying Pandemia Collectively: Sharing Plural Experiences of Interruption, Dislocation, Care, and Connection

Sarah Wright, Joseph Palis, Natalie Osborne, Fiona Miller, Uma Kothari, Karen Paiva Henrique, Phoebe Everingham, Maria Borovnik

Journal article  |  2023  |  GEOHUMANITIES

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of academic geographers got together across borders to share our varied ex..

TOWARDS DECOLONISING DEVELOPMENT: A Role for Heritage

U Kothari

Book Chapter  |  2022

This epilogue considers the contribution that rethinking heritage in development can make to the wider project of decoloniality. S..

Multiplicities of sandscapes and granular geographies

U Kothari

Journal article  |  2021  |  Dialogues in Human Geography

This commentary on William Jamieson’s article, ‘For Granular Geography’, which illuminates the granular relations of sand as it is..

Seafarers, the mission and the archive: Affective, embodied and sensory traces of sea-mobilities in Melbourne, Australia

Uma Kothari

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Mission to Seafarers, founded in 1856, is an international organisation that offers support to the seafaring community. Recent..

Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives

Celia McMichael, Uma Kothari, Karen E McNamara, Alex Arnall

Journal article  |  2021  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE

Sea level rise presents risks to ecosystems, populations, and infrastructure in low-lying areas. This article considers diverse wa..

Remembering a Brave New World

Tim Edensor, Uma Kothari

Journal article  |  2021  |  SENSES & SOCIETY

Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities

A Arnall, U Kothari

Journal article  |  2020  |  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as p..

COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari, Bina Agarwal, Matthew Alford, Oliver Bakewell, Nicola Banks, Stephanie Barrientos, Tanja Bastia, Anthony J Bebbington, Upasak Das, Ralitza Dimova, Richard Duncombe, Charis Enns, David Fielding, Christopher Foster, Timothy Foster, Tomas Frederiksen, Ping Gao, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  WORLD DEVELOPMENT

COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime examp..

Introduction

Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari

Book Chapter  |  2020