Kalpana Wilson teaches critical international development at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores questions of race and gender in development, labour movements, neoliberalism, imperialism, fascism and reproductive rights and justice, with a focus on South Asia and its diasporas. She is the author of Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice (Zed Books, 2012) and co-editor of Gender, Agency and Coercion (Palgrave, 2013). She has published in Development and Change, Third World Quarterly, Feminist Review, Antipode and other journals on racialisation in development, appropriation of feminism, collective agency in labour movements, population policies, visual representations, and diasporas in development. She is a founder member of the Race and Development Working Group and is currently Co-Chair of the Development Geographies Research Group.
Contested development imaginaries: Hindutva and the co-optation of ‘decolonisation’
As the Indian state uses its turn leading the G20 to position itself as a global development leader and representative of the Global South, we focus specifically on the ways in which these development imaginaries are being addressed in India.
September 27, 2023