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

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.

Education

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

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

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

Selected works

Books

  • 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

  • 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

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

References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 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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