Kalpana Wilson Bhattacharya
Kalpana Wilson is an author, writer, and professor. She is a founding member of the South Asian Solidarity Group.
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.
Career
Wilson has taught at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, where her research focus was on Bihar, India. 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. She has also signed a variety of open letters with other academics, including in 2020 to condemn the 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack, in 2019 to protest the response by the Indian government to violence against women, and in 2015 to call for Narendra Modi to be held accountable for human rights abuses in India.
Selected works
Books
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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.
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* 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.
*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.<ref name="Switzer 2016"/>
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.
Career
Wilson has taught at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, where her research focus was on Bihar, India. 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. She has also signed a variety of open letters with other academics, including in 2020 to condemn the 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack, in 2019 to protest the response by the Indian government to violence against women, and in 2015 to call for Narendra Modi to be held accountable for human rights abuses in India.
Selected works
Books
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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.
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* 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.
*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.<ref name="Switzer 2016"/>
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