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‘Leading the revolution?’ Gender, race and
the language of social justice in development communications
Kalpana WilsonDSA Annual Conference 2013
Outline• Changing representations in development:
from ‘victimhood’ to ‘agency’?• Neoliberalism and ‘Gender Equality as Smart
Economics’• Race and gender in the construction of the
hyper-entrepreneurial subject• The Girl Effect• Kony 2012• Displacing collective agency, appropriating
social justice
Changing representations?
A mother holds her malnourished children during a therapeutic feeding program at an ambulatory center run by MSF in Aje, Shalla district of Oromiya region.
Thanks to micro-credit, this women’s co-operative has been able to launch itself into the production of palm oil and maize dough.
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Women protest the seizure of their land by the government for a Special
Economic Zone (SEZ), Singur, West Bengal, India, December 2006