Kalpana Wilson Explained

Kalpana Wilson
Occupation:	Academic, author
Education:	University of Sussex (BA Hons, MA Area Studies (South Asia))
Alma Mater:	SOAS University of London (PhD)
Discipline:	Geography
Sub Discipline:	South Asia
Workplaces:	London 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

• Book: Wilson . Kalpana . Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice . 2012 . Bloomsbury Academic . 9781848135123. ^[13]
• Book: Madhok . Sumi . Phillips . Anne . Wilson . Kalpana . Gender, Agency, and Coercion . 2013 . Palgrave Macmillan . London . 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]
• Book: Kalpana Wilson . Visvanathan . Nalini . Duggan . Lynn . Wiegersma . Nan . Nisonoff . Laurie . The Women, Gender and Development Reader . 2011 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 9781848135888 . From missionaries to microcredit? 'Race', gender and agency in neoliberal development.
• 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.
• Wilson, Kalpana (2018). "Development". In: Bleiker, R. (ed.) Visual Global Politics. Interventions. London, UK: Routledge. .
• 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.

Journals

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kalpana Wilson | the Guardian. TheGuardian.com.
2. News: Dasgupta . Priyanka . JNU attack: Diaspora raises protest pitch . 15 April 2022 . . January 7, 2020.
3. Web site: VIRTUAL: Contested Nationalisms in Contemporary India . Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) . 15 April 2021 . . 15 April 2022.
4. Web site: Dr. Kalpana Wilson . University of London Birbeck . 15 April 2022.
5. News: Suroor . Hasan . South Asian women call for 'gender-just' laws in India . 16 April 2022 . . January 25, 2013 . updated December 4, 2021.
6. News: Wilson . Kalpana . Britain must end its support for sterilisation in India . 16 April 2022 . . November 14, 2014.
7. News: Sunnia . Manishta . Is migration green? . 16 April 2022 . . August 10, 2013.
8. News: A violent attack on academic freedom . 16 April 2022 . . January 9, 2020.
9. News: India's government fails to act on violence against women and girls . 16 April 2022 . . August 8, 2019.
10. News: An open letter to Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad . 17 April 2022 . . January 19, 2016 . updated December 4, 2021.
11. News: On his UK visit, Narendra Modi must be held accountable for his record on human rights in India . 16 April 2022 . . November 11, 2015.
12. Book: Wilson, Kalpana . https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/race-racism-and-development-interrogating-history-discourse-and-practice/acknowledgements . Zed Books . Race, racism and development: Interrogating history, discourse and practice. Acknowledgements. vii–viii. 2012.
13. Reviews for Race, Racism and Development:
    • Chen . Kai . Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice. . . July 2013 . 36 . 7 . 1256–1257 . 10.1080/01419870.2013.786115 . 144274325 .
    • 10.1080/08039410.2014.871786 . Book Reviews: Race, and Development. Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice . Tomáš . Profant . 565–573 . Forum for Development Studies . 41 . 2014 . 3. 143812000 .
14. Reviews for Gender, Agency, and Coercion:
    • Taylor . James . Sumi Madhok, Anne Philips, and Kalpana Wilson, eds., Gender, Agency, and Coercion, Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013, pp. ix + 280. Indexed. ISBN 978-0230300323 . Hypatia Reviews Online . 2014 . 2014 . 10.1017/s2753906700001261 . Cambridge University Press. free .
    • Engeli . Isabelle . Gender, Agency, and Coercion. Edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, and Kalpana Wilson. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 304 pp. . 2015 . 11 . 439–441 . 10.1017/S1743923X15000173 . 152277122 . 15 April 2022.
15. Shen . Yang . Filial Daughters? Agency and Subjectivity of Rural Migrant Women in Shanghai . . June 2016 . 226 . 519–537 . 10.1017/S0305741016000357. 147754429 .
16. Bessa . Thais . Informed powerlessness: child marriage interventions and Third World girlhood discourses . . November 2019 . 40 . 11 . 1941–1956 . 10.1080/01436597.2019.1626229. 197777697 .
17. Switzer . Heather . Bent . Emily . Endsley . Crystal Leigh . Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global . . Spring 2016 . 28 . 1 . 33–59. 10.1353/ff.2016.0014 . 151744969 .