‘Leading the revolution?’ Gender, race and the language of social justice in development...

‘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.

Photo: Tom Greenwood

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Women protest the seizure of their land by the government for a Special

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