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Kalpana Wilson

Kalpana Wilson is an author and scholar with a focus on South Asia.[1] She is a founding member of the South Asian Solidarity Group.[2][3] She has taught at the London School of Economics, SOAS University of London, and Birkbeck, University of London.

Kalpana Wilson
Occupation(s)Academic, author
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Sussex (BA Hons, MA Area Studies (South Asia))
Alma materSOAS University of London (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineGeography
Sub-disciplineSouth Asia
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
SOAS University of London
Birkbeck, University of London

Education

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Wilson completed a Bachelors with Honors and a Masters in Area Studies (South Asia) from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Political Economy from SOAS University of London.[4]

Career

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Wilson has taught at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, where her research focus was on Bihar, India.[1][5] She has also taught at SOAS University of London and is a Lecturer in Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, where her research focus includes South Asia diasporas.[4]

During her career, Wilson has written in a variety of forums, including in The Guardian and elsewhere about population control policies.[6][7] She has also signed a variety of open letters with other academics, including in 2020 to condemn the 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack,[8] in 2019 to protest the Indian government response to violence against women,[9] in 2016 to protest caste discrimination,[10] and in 2015 to call for Narendra Modi to be held accountable for human rights abuses in India.[11]

Personal life

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She is the daughter of John Wilson and Amrit Wilson and is married to Dipankar Bhattacharya. They have a daughter.[12]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Wilson, Kalpana (2012). Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781848135123.[13]
  • Madhok, Sumi; Phillips, Anne; Wilson, Kalpana, eds. (2013). Gender, Agency, and Coercion. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30032-3.[14]

Book contributions

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  • Wilson, Kalpana (2007). "Agency." In Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (eds.), The Impact of Feminism on Political Concepts and Debates. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 126-145.[15]
  • Kalpana Wilson (2011). "From missionaries to microcredit? 'Race', gender and agency in neoliberal development". In Visvanathan, Nalini; Duggan, Lynn; Wiegersma, Nan; Nisonoff, Laurie (eds.). The Women, Gender and Development Reader. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781848135888.
  • Wilson, Kalpana. (2013). "Agency as 'Smart Economics': Neoliberalism, Gender and Development." In Gender, Agency and Coercion, edited by S. Madhok, A. Phillips, and K. Wilson, 84 – 101. London : Palgrave McMillan.[16][17]
  • Ramamurthy, Anandi and Wilson, Kalpana (2018). "'An act of struggle in the present': History, education and political campaigning by South Asian anti-imperialist activists in Britain". In: Choudry, Aziz and Vally, Salim (eds.) Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools. Routledge Advances in Sociology. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138059108
  • Wilson, Kalpana (2018). "Development". In: Bleiker, R. (ed.) Visual Global Politics. Interventions. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415726078.
  • Wilson, Kalpana (2021). "Racism, imperialism and international development". In: Farris, S. and Skeggs, B. and Toscano, A. and Bromberg, S. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Marxism. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781473974234

Journals

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  • Cornwall, Andrea, Jasmine Gideon, and Kalpana Wilson. (2008). "Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neoliberalism." IDS Bulletin 39 (6): 1-9.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Kalpana Wilson | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  2. ^ Dasgupta, Priyanka (7 January 2020). "JNU attack: Diaspora raises protest pitch". Times of India. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  3. ^ "VIRTUAL: Contested Nationalisms in Contemporary India". Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). University College London. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Dr. Kalpana Wilson". University of London Birbeck. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  5. ^ Suroor, Hasan (25 January 2013). "South Asian women call for 'gender-just' laws in India". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 April 2022. updated December 4, 2021
  6. ^ Wilson, Kalpana (14 November 2014). "Britain must end its support for sterilisation in India". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  7. ^ Sunnia, Manishta (10 August 2013). "Is migration green?". New Internationalist. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  8. ^ "A violent attack on academic freedom". The Guardian. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  9. ^ "India's government fails to act on violence against women and girls". The Guardian. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  10. ^ "An open letter to Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad". The Hindu. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2022. updated December 4, 2021
  11. ^ "On his UK visit, Narendra Modi must be held accountable for his record on human rights in India". The Guardian. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  12. ^ Wilson, Kalpana (2012). "Acknowledgements". Race, racism and development: Interrogating history, discourse and practice. Zed Books. pp. vii–viii.
  13. ^ Reviews for Race, Racism and Development:
  14. ^ Reviews for Gender, Agency, and Coercion:
  15. ^ Shen, Yang (June 2016). "Filial Daughters? Agency and Subjectivity of Rural Migrant Women in Shanghai". The China Quarterly. 226: 519–537. doi:10.1017/S0305741016000357. S2CID 147754429.
  16. ^ Bessa, Thais (November 2019). "Informed powerlessness: child marriage interventions and Third World girlhood discourses". Third World Quarterly. 40 (11): 1941–1956. doi:10.1080/01436597.2019.1626229. S2CID 197777697.
  17. ^ a b Switzer, Heather; Bent, Emily; Endsley, Crystal Leigh (Spring 2016). "Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global". Feminist Formations. 28 (1): 33–59. doi:10.1353/ff.2016.0014. S2CID 151744969.
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