Book Launch - 'Race, Racism and Development'
Kalpana Wilson (author, Birkbeck/ LSE), Firoze Manji (Head of Codesria's Documentation and Information Centre, Dakar) & Paru Raman (chair of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS)
Date: 29 January 2013Time: 6:30 PM
Finishes: 29 January 2013Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Institute of EducationRoom: Drama Studio
Type of Event: Book Launch
LIDC and the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies at Birkbeck invite you to a book launch of 'Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice' by Kalpana Wilson (Zed Books) followed by an informal reception with drinks and snacks.
The discussion will explore the following issues:
- How are race and racism central to development – and why have they remained an arena of silence within development studies?
- How does race structure the relationships between NGOs, corporates and people’s resistance? What are the implications for transnational political solidarity?
- How can anti-racist feminists respond to the new representations of women in the global South as agents of development?
- Why are racialised population control policies once again at the forefront of the development agenda?
- How does DfID’s approach to diasporas relate to the War on Terror and the reconfiguration of British racism?
Further details can be found on the LIDC site
