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Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating history, discourse and practice Paperback – 11 Oct 2012

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Zed Books (11 Oct. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1848135122
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848135123
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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'This important book breaks the silence on race and racism in development. Kalpana Wilson's nuanced historical and political analysis goes beyond a narrow critique of the development industry to address broader questions of injustice, making this a book that ought to be essential reading for all students and practitioners of development.' Andrea Cornwall, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex 'Race, Racism and Development makes several key interventions that bridge postcolonial, political economic, critical race, and feminist literatures. Wilson's critiques of Foucauldian approaches to power and development are a breath of fresh air ... [her] careful attention to the histories and dynamics of domination and resistance around the globe and their significance for contemporary politics is compelling ...The author rightly asks us to think more deeply about what a productive politics of transnational solidarity would look like. This book marks a major moment in the project to break the silence around race and racism in development studies.' David Naguib Pellow, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota, author of Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice 'Kalpana Wilson's new book is a clear indictment of the imbrication of race in development, a fact well-known to race critical scholars, but one which has rarely been analysed in such historical and contemporary sociological depth. This accessibly written and cogently argued book is a must-read for students of race and development alike'. Alana Lentin, co-author of The Crises of Multiculturalism

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Kalpana Wilson is Fellow in Transnational Gender Studies at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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5.0 out of 5 starsCompelling read on material & embodied racisms within development
By N. Doshi on 3 Feb. 2013
Format: Paperback
Kalpana Wilson's study of race, racism and development is a highly readable academic treatise that questions the core of neoliberal development. Grounded in Marxist analyses and based on work by Global South scholars, she presents a compelling argument of how development has continued the scientific racisms of colonialism.

She presents her argument beautifully - addressing the often ignored origins of development, the insectionalities of race/class/gender that so typically mark development work, and even how postdevelopment works involve the same racisms that are prevalent within development despite the desire to move away from them.

My main critique is that I think she somewhat fails to engage with postcolonial scholarship on the matter with enough depth. Her easy dismissal of the literature as "Foucauldian" and therefore not creating a sense of material inequality makes the discussion of the production of knowledge argument weak. I also feel she fails to really take on board some of the more complex literature of postcolonialists have added to the pre-existing Marxist literature on race & development.

That said, the ease of reading is remarkable, and full of examples. This is a book on the study of APPLIED development, not merely another treatise of idealistic hope or political theory.
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