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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]

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    Kalpana Wilson
    Occupation(s)Academic, author
    Academic background
    Education University of Sussex (BA Hons, MA Area Studies (South Asia))
    Alma mater SOAS University of London (PhD)