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'''Kalpana Wilson''' is an author and scholar with a focus on South Asia.<ref name="Guardian profile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kalpana-wilson|title = Kalpana Wilson &#124; the Guardian|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]}}</ref> She is a founding member of the South Asian Solidarity Group.<ref name="Dasgupta 2020">{{cite news |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Priyanka |title=JNU attack: Diaspora raises protest pitch |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/jnu-attack-diaspora-raises-protest-pitch/articleshow/73129152.cms |access-date=15 April 2022 |work=[[Times of India]] |date=January 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=VIRTUAL: Contested Nationalisms in Contemporary India |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2021/may/virtual-contested-nationalisms-contemporary-india |website=Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) |date=15 April 2021 |publisher=[[University College London]] |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref> She has taught at the [[London School of Economics]], [[SOAS University of London]], and [[Birkbeck, University of London]].<br />
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==Education==<br />
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]].<ref name="Birbeck profile">{{cite web |title=Dr. Kalpana Wilson |url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8009423/kalpana-wilson |website=University of London Birbeck |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Wilson has taught at the Gender Institute at the [[London School of Economics]], where her research focus was on [[Bihar]], India.<ref name="Guardian profile"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Suroor |first1=Hasan |title=South Asian women call for 'gender-just' laws in India |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news//article60440874.ece |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=January 25, 2013 |quote=updated December 4, 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Birbeck profile"/><br />
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During her career, Wilson has written in a variety of forums, including in ''[[The Guardian]]'' and elsewhere about [[Human population planning|population control policies]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Kalpana |title=Britain must end its support for sterilisation in India |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/britain-end-support-forced-sterilisation-india-chhattisgarh |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=November 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sunnia |first1=Manishta |title=Is migration green? |url=https://newint.org/blog/2013/08/09/migration-green-population-matters |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[New Internationalist]] |date=August 10, 2013}}</ref> She has also signed a variety of open letters with other academics, including in 2020 to condemn the [[2020 Jawaharlal Nehru University attack]],<ref>{{cite news |title=A violent attack on academic freedom |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/a-violent-attack-on-academic-freedom |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=January 9, 2020}}</ref> in 2019 to protest the Indian government response to [[Violence against women in India|violence against women]],<ref>{{cite news |title=India's government fails to act on violence against women and girls |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/08/india-government-fails-to-act-on-violence-against-women-and-girls |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=August 8, 2019}}</ref> in 2016 to protest [[Caste system in India|caste]] discrimination,<ref>{{cite news |title=An open letter to Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Dalit-student-Rohith-Vemula-suicide-An-open-letter-to-Vice-Chancellor-of-University-of-Hyderabad/article60542823.ece |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=January 19, 2016 |quote=updated December 4, 2021}}</ref> and in 2015 to call for [[Narendra Modi]] to be held accountable for human rights abuses in India.<ref>{{cite news |title=On his UK visit, Narendra Modi must be held accountable for his record on human rights in India |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/on-his-uk-visit-narendra-modi-must-be-held-accountable-for-his-record-on-human-rights-in-india |access-date=16 April 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=November 11, 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
She is the daughter of John Wilson and [[Amrit Wilson]] and is married to Dipankar Bhattacharya. They have a daughter.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url= https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/race-racism-and-development-interrogating-history-discourse-and-practice/acknowledgements | publisher=Zed Books | title=Race, racism and development: Interrogating history, discourse and practice| chapter=Acknowledgements|pages=vii–viii| last= Wilson|first=Kalpana | year=2012}}</ref><br />
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==Selected works==<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Kalpana |title=Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice |date=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781848135123}}<ref><br />
Reviews for ''Race, Racism and Development'':<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Kai |title=Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice. |journal=[[Ethnic & Racial Studies]] |date=July 2013 |volume=36 |issue=7 |pages=1256–1257 |doi=10.1080/01419870.2013.786115 |s2cid=144274325 }}<br />
*{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/08039410.2014.871786 |title=Book Reviews: Race, {{sic|Racsim}} and Development. Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice |first=Tomáš |last=Profant |pages=565–573 |journal=Forum for Development Studies |volume=41 |year=2014 |issue=3|s2cid=143812000 }}<br />
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*{{cite book |editor1-last=Madhok |editor1-first=Sumi |editor2-last=Phillips |editor2-first=Anne |editor3-last=Wilson |editor3-first=Kalpana |title=Gender, Agency, and Coercion |date=2013 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=London |isbn=978-0-230-30032-3}}<ref><br />
Reviews for ''Gender, Agency, and Coercion'':<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=James |title=Sumi Madhok, Anne Philips, and Kalpana Wilson, eds., Gender, Agency, and Coercion, Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013, pp. ix + 280. Indexed. ISBN 978-0230300323 |journal=Hypatia Reviews Online |date=2014 |volume=2014 |doi=10.1017/s2753906700001261 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|doi-access=free }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Engeli |first1=Isabelle |title=Gender, Agency, and Coercion. Edited by Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips, and Kalpana Wilson. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 304 pp|journal=[[Politics & Gender]] |date=2015 |volume=11 |pages=439–441 |doi=10.1017/S1743923X15000173 |s2cid=152277122 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/gender-agency-and-coercion-edited-by-sumi-madhok-anne-phillips-and-kalpana-wilson-new-york-and-london-palgrave-macmillan-2013-304-pp-100-hardcover/792FE78D11B364FE4735E9419085A975 |access-date=15 April 2022|url-access=subscription }}<br />
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===Book contributions===<br />
* 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shen |first1=Yang |title=Filial Daughters? Agency and Subjectivity of Rural Migrant Women in Shanghai |journal=[[The China Quarterly]] |date=June 2016 |volume=226 |pages=519–537 |doi=10.1017/S0305741016000357|s2cid=147754429 }}</ref><br />
* {{cite book |author1=Kalpana Wilson |editor1-last=Visvanathan |editor1-first=Nalini |editor2-last=Duggan |editor2-first=Lynn |editor3-last=Wiegersma |editor3-first=Nan |editor4-last=Nisonoff |editor4-first=Laurie |title=The Women, Gender and Development Reader |date=2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781848135888 |chapter=From missionaries to microcredit? 'Race', gender and agency in neoliberal development}}<br />
* 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bessa |first1=Thais |title=Informed powerlessness: child marriage interventions and Third World girlhood discourses |journal=[[Third World Quarterly]] |date=November 2019 |volume=40 |issue=11 |pages=1941–1956 |doi=10.1080/01436597.2019.1626229|s2cid=197777697 }}</ref><ref name="Switzer 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Switzer |first1=Heather |last2=Bent |first2=Emily |last3=Endsley |first3=Crystal Leigh |title=Precarious Politics and Girl Effects: Exploring the Limits of the Girl Gone Global |journal=[[Feminist Formations]] |date=Spring 2016 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=33–59|doi=10.1353/ff.2016.0014 |s2cid=151744969 }}</ref><br />
*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}}<br />
* Wilson, Kalpana (2018). "Development". In: Bleiker, R. (ed.) ''Visual Global Politics. Interventions''. London, UK: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415726078}}. <br />
* 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}}<br />
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===Journals===<br />
* Cornwall, Andrea, Jasmine Gideon, and Kalpana Wilson. (2008). "Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neoliberalism." ''[[IDS Bulletin]]'' 39 (6): 1–9.<ref name="Switzer 2016"/><br />
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