Julia Guenther is a sociologist and currently undertaking her Ph.D. at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also a lecturer at various Austrian universities. Her long association with India has strengthened her interest in women´s and gendered movements, feminist literature, feminisation of development, resistances and subjectivity formations of women in India, in particular, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. She guest co-edited a special issue for Journal of Developing Societies (Sage, 2015) with focus on India and is on the editorial board of the Journal Culture and Religion.
Eswarappa Kasi is Faculty at the Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Distance Education, School of Development Studies & Social Justice, National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR), Hyderabad, India. He is one of the series editors of Pasts and Futures: Readings in a Contemporary World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK). His interests include the anthropology of livelihoods and natural resource, tribal and marginal communities and their development. He guest co-edited a special issues for Journal of Developing Societies (Sage, 2015), ROMANIAN YEAR BOOK OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2013), and Man in India (2009).