{"id":775,"date":"2017-02-08T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=775"},"modified":"2017-03-06T18:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:12:57","slug":"research-seminar-kalpana-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-kalpana-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 08 February 2017 &#8211; Lunchtime seminar with Dr Kalpana Wilson (Birkbeck, University of London)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: Dr Kalpana Wilson (Birkbeck, University of London)<br \/>\nTitle: Mediating \u2018Diaspora Girls\u2019 in Development: Race\/Gender and \u2018the Core of Smart Power\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Kalpana Wilson teaches in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores questions of race\/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and movements for social justice and transformation, particularly in the context of South Asia. She is the author of Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice, Zed Books, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The recent rapid rise of representations of adolescent girls in the Global South as idealised agents of development and hyperindustrious neoliberal subjects has been oriented towards the specific contemporary requirements of global capital accumulation. The figure of the \u2018girl\u2019 in these representations, in need of help in order that her potential may be unleashed, is always understood in relation and in contrast to her already empowered Northern counterpart, mobilising postfeminist discourses which assume that gender equality has been achieved in the global North. These representations rework multiple colonial tropes to reproduce racialised global inequalities. But how do representations of \u2018diaspora girls\u2019 &#8211; young women who have grown up in the global North but have origins and family connections in the South \u2013 both reinscribe and complicate these patterns? How do they engage with questions of gender, race, and belonging? Of imperialism and global geo-politics? With international institutions increasingly highlighting the role of \u2018diasporas\u2019 in development, and diaspora organizations identified as an instrument of \u2018Smart Power\u2019 by the US administration, such representations are increasingly prevalent within development discourses. In this paper I examine the relationships and contradictions they make visible, and those they obscure, through a consideration of an ongoing series of documentary films produced for the BBC in which young British people return to their countries of origin. In the cultural productions discussed here, \u2018diaspora girls\u2019 are constructed as embodying postfeminist gender values seen as \u2018British\u2019 and heroically carrying them to \u2018dangerous\u2019 spaces of gender oppression and violence. Yet at the same time their perceived empowerment is understood to be fragile and contingent, precisely because of their affective connection with these spaces (which include both countries of origin and diasporic communities). Within the framework of wider discourses in which gender inequality itself has become a racial marker, these \u2018diaspora girls\u2019, I argue, are made to symbolically do the work of both the saviour and the saved.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM<br \/>\nWEDNESDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2017<br \/>\nCANTOR 9128<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/seminars-201617\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for details of other seminars in the series.<\/p>\n<p>All SHU staff and students are welcome to attend the C3RI Lunchtime Research Seminars. If you are from outside of the University and would like to attend a seminar, please email <a href=\"javascript:DeCryptX('1D250R1J3C0s3k3x0.2c1d0.0u3n3B3v3x2d3m1f2e3w3@2C0t0t3h1o2f2k1o2i0%24001b0%13330C362T0I0%24112t1f2u0e0a1s1d1i3(35222u2g3p3l3q2c0r')\" target=\"_blank\">C3RI Administrator<\/a> to arrange entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Dr Kalpana Wilson (Birkbeck, University of London) Title: Mediating \u2018Diaspora Girls\u2019 in Development: Race\/Gender and \u2018the Core of Smart Power\u2019 Dr Kalpana Wilson teaches in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores questions of race\/gender, labour, neoliberalism, and movements for social justice and transformation, particularly in the context of South Asia. She is the author [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[6,121],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-external-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/01\/2017-02-08-WILSON-Diaspora-Girls.gif?fit=400%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-cv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8529,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/thursday-19-march-2020-seminar-dr-justin-schlosberg\/","url_meta":{"origin":775,"position":0},"title":"CANCELLED: Thursday 19 March 2020 &#8211; Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Justin Schlosberg (Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London)","author":"Amy Lander","date":"06\/02\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED \u00a0 Title: Making Sense of Disinformation Speaker: Dr Justin Schlosberg (Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London) Hosted by: Dr Anandi Ramamurthy Date and time: Thursday 19 March 2020, 12.00pm-13.30pm Abstract Democratic societies have never been immune to disinformation. 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