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Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

January 01, 1970

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a transnational feminist network of scholars, researchers and activists from the global South. DAWN works under the gender, ecology and economic justice (GEEJ) framework, which highlights the linkages between these three advocacy areas. The network offers a forum for feminist advocacy, research, and analysis on global social, political, and economic issues affecting women, with a focus on poor and marginalized women of the global South. This was a shift from the association of feminism with white, middle-class women of the global North common at the time of DAWN’s formation and into the present-day.[1] Rafia Zakaria, author of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, argues that DAWN and its empowerment approach to development offer a successful example of a bottom-up, antiracist alternative to political mobilization that decentres the whiteness prominent in dominant feminist development projects.[2]

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
Formation1984
HeadquartersSuva, Fiji
Websitewww.dawnfeminist.org
A group of DAWN members and partners at the Intergenerational Dialogues meeting, Mexico City, 2019

History edit

DAWN, which today has its Secretariat based in Fiji, was founded in Bangalore, in 1984.[1] The founding committee members were Neuma Aguiar (Brazil), Zubeida Ahmad (Pakistan), Peggy Antrobus (Barbados), Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico), Nirmala Banerjee (India), Carmen Barroso (Brazil), Ela Bhatt (India), Tone Bleie (Norway), Noeleen Heyzer (Malaysia), Hameeda Hossain (Bangladesh), Devaki Jain (India), Kumari Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), Isabel Larguia (Cuba), Ragnhild Lund (Norway), Geertje Lycklama (Netherlands), Lucille Mair (Jamaica), Katharine McKee (United States), Fatima Mernissi (Morocco), Achola Pala Okeyo (Kenya), Marie-Angelique Savane (Senegal), Gita Sen (India), and Claire Slatter (Fiji).[3] Aguiar served as general coordinator of DAWN from 1986 to 1990,[4] and was succeeded by Antrobus from 1991 to 1996.[3]

 
A meeting in Bergen to review a draft of DAWN's first book, early 1980s.

DAWN economists Gita Sen and Caren Grown presented a platform for a feminist economics at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi.[5] The ideas which circulated there were later published as a book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions, Third World Women's Perspectives, considered to be DAWN’s manifesto.[3]

Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions edit

Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions critiqued mainstream development programs and envisioned an alternative feminist “paradigm” focusing on women’s empowerment.[6]

The groundbreaking work included both broad, political analysis and practical advice for women’s organizations, connecting the more familiar, grassroots work that many women engaged in with macroeconomic analysis and critique of the neoliberal development practices responsible for women’s unfavourable circumstances globally.[1][6] For instance, a food crisis in Africa, a crisis of poverty in South Asia, militarism in the Pacific Islands, and the Latin American debt crisis. It criticized the “integrationist” approach of the current “Women in Development” perspective for its assumption that “women’s main problem in the Third World is insufficient participation in an otherwise benevolent process of growth and development”. Instead, the “manifesto” claimed that structural and systemic change would do the work of eliminating inequality based on gender, race, and class everywhere and between nations.

This alternative left feminist vision emphasized “autonomous and equitable development” and focused on satisfying people’s basic needs. It situated women’s self-organization and empowerment as essential to realizing this vision. Authored by feminist academics, policymakers, and activists from the global South, the book argued that effective development can only stem from taking the standpoints of poor Third World women.[6]

 
DAWN's first book, "Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives," (1985).

Goals and activities edit

Engaging in both analysis and advocacy efforts, DAWN focuses on five key areas:

Work stemming from these research themes make up a number of books and publications, and have formed the basis of advocacy within intergovernmental processes (including for example RIO+20).[7][8] Yet, as DAWN maintains close connections to activist communities, its project is equally focused on ‘networking’ with social movements, as well as on ‘training.’[9] Such networking involves engaging extensively and dialogically with grassroots movements (through seminars and workshops), which allows for the production of bottom-up knowledge with them, as well as bringing to them interlinkage analyses that are more structural and critical and which together contest neoliberal capitalism’s dominant narrative.[8] Training (which is accomplished through the creation of training institutes that act as spaces for intensive participatory education), is a way to multiply this analysis and knowledge, so that new feminists can use it for change. DAWN publishes a variety of articles, papers and multimedia content, most of which can be found on its website.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Atrobus, Peggy; Wendy Harcourt (2015). "DAWN, the Third World Feminist Network: Upturning Hierarchies". In Rawwida Baksh-Soodeen (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements. Oxford University Press. pp. 159–187. ISBN 978-0-19-994349-4.
  2. ^ Zakaria, Rafia (2021). Against white feminism : notes on disruption (First ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-324-00661-9. OCLC 1196174978.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ a b c Gita Sen and Caren Grown, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987. Accessed 10 May 2020.
  4. ^ Wolff, Barbara (May 2, 2003). "UW-Madison Announces Honorary-Degree Recipients". Campus News. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin–Madison. from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  5. ^ Janet Halley; Prabha Kotiswaran; Rachel Rebouché; Hila Shamir, eds. (2019). Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. University of Minnesota Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-4529-5869-9.
  6. ^ a b c Biewener, Carole; Bacque, Marie-Helen (Summer 2015). "Feminism and the politics of empowerment in international development". Air & Space Power Journal - Africa and Francophonie. 6: 58+ – via Gale Academic OneFile.
  7. ^ a b "Research and Analysis". DAWN. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  8. ^ a b Carroll, William K. (2015-09-03). "Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups". Globalizations. 12 (5): 710–727. doi:10.1080/14747731.2014.1001231. ISSN 1474-7731. S2CID 54722042.
  9. ^ Carroll, William K. (2014), Atasoy, Yıldız (ed.), "Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle", Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity, International Political Economy Series, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 259–284, doi:10.1057/9781137293688_11, ISBN 978-1-137-29368-8, retrieved 2021-11-17

January 01, 1970
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Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era DAWN is a transnational feminist network of scholars researchers and activists from the global South DAWN works under the gender ecology and economic justice GEEJ framework which highlights the linkages between these three advocacy areas The network offers a forum for feminist advocacy research and analysis on global social political and economic issues affecting women with a focus on poor and marginalized women of the global South This was a shift from the association of feminism with white middle class women of the global North common at the time of DAWN s formation and into the present day 1 Rafia Zakaria author of Against White Feminism Notes on Disruption argues that DAWN and its empowerment approach to development offer a successful example of a bottom up antiracist alternative to political mobilization that decentres the whiteness prominent in dominant feminist development projects 2 Development Alternatives with Women for a New EraFormation1984HeadquartersSuva FijiWebsitewww dawnfeminist org A group of DAWN members and partners at the Intergenerational Dialogues meeting Mexico City 2019 Contents 1 History 2 Development Crises and Alternative Visions 3 Goals and activities 4 ReferencesHistory editDAWN which today has its Secretariat based in Fiji was founded in Bangalore in 1984 1 The founding committee members were Neuma Aguiar Brazil Zubeida Ahmad Pakistan Peggy Antrobus Barbados Lourdes Arizpe Mexico Nirmala Banerjee India Carmen Barroso Brazil Ela Bhatt India Tone Bleie Norway Noeleen Heyzer Malaysia Hameeda Hossain Bangladesh Devaki Jain India Kumari Jayawardene Sri Lanka Isabel Larguia Cuba Ragnhild Lund Norway Geertje Lycklama Netherlands Lucille Mair Jamaica Katharine McKee United States Fatima Mernissi Morocco Achola Pala Okeyo Kenya Marie Angelique Savane Senegal Gita Sen India and Claire Slatter Fiji 3 Aguiar served as general coordinator of DAWN from 1986 to 1990 4 and was succeeded by Antrobus from 1991 to 1996 3 nbsp A meeting in Bergen to review a draft of DAWN s first book early 1980s DAWN economists Gita Sen and Caren Grown presented a platform for a feminist economics at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi 5 The ideas which circulated there were later published as a book Development Crises and Alternative Visions Third World Women s Perspectives considered to be DAWN s manifesto 3 Development Crises and Alternative Visions editDevelopment Crises and Alternative Visions critiqued mainstream development programs and envisioned an alternative feminist paradigm focusing on women s empowerment 6 The groundbreaking work included both broad political analysis and practical advice for women s organizations connecting the more familiar grassroots work that many women engaged in with macroeconomic analysis and critique of the neoliberal development practices responsible for women s unfavourable circumstances globally 1 6 For instance a food crisis in Africa a crisis of poverty in South Asia militarism in the Pacific Islands and the Latin American debt crisis It criticized the integrationist approach of the current Women in Development perspective for its assumption that women s main problem in the Third World is insufficient participation in an otherwise benevolent process of growth and development Instead the manifesto claimed that structural and systemic change would do the work of eliminating inequality based on gender race and class everywhere and between nations This alternative left feminist vision emphasized autonomous and equitable development and focused on satisfying people s basic needs It situated women s self organization and empowerment as essential to realizing this vision Authored by feminist academics policymakers and activists from the global South the book argued that effective development can only stem from taking the standpoints of poor Third World women 6 nbsp DAWN s first book Development Crises and Alternative Visions Third World Women s Perspectives 1985 Goals and activities editEngaging in both analysis and advocacy efforts DAWN focuses on five key areas Political Economy of Globalization PEG Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights SRHR Political Restructuring and Social Transformation PRST Political Ecology and Sustainability PEAS Feminist Digital Justice FDJ 7 Work stemming from these research themes make up a number of books and publications and have formed the basis of advocacy within intergovernmental processes including for example RIO 20 7 8 Yet as DAWN maintains close connections to activist communities its project is equally focused on networking with social movements as well as on training 9 Such networking involves engaging extensively and dialogically with grassroots movements through seminars and workshops which allows for the production of bottom up knowledge with them as well as bringing to them interlinkage analyses that are more structural and critical and which together contest neoliberal capitalism s dominant narrative 8 Training which is accomplished through the creation of training institutes that act as spaces for intensive participatory education is a way to multiply this analysis and knowledge so that new feminists can use it for change DAWN publishes a variety of articles papers and multimedia content most of which can be found on its website References edit a b c Atrobus Peggy Wendy Harcourt 2015 DAWN the Third World Feminist Network Upturning Hierarchies In Rawwida Baksh Soodeen ed The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements Oxford University Press pp 159 187 ISBN 978 0 19 994349 4 Zakaria Rafia 2021 Against white feminism notes on disruption First ed New York NY ISBN 978 1 324 00661 9 OCLC 1196174978 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link a b c Gita Sen and Caren Grown Development Crises and Alternative Visions New York Monthly Review Press 1987 Accessed 10 May 2020 Wolff Barbara May 2 2003 UW Madison Announces Honorary Degree Recipients Campus News Madison Wisconsin University of Wisconsin Madison Archived from the original on 18 April 2024 Retrieved 18 April 2024 Janet Halley Prabha Kotiswaran Rachel Rebouche Hila Shamir eds 2019 Governance Feminism Notes from the Field University of Minnesota Press p 400 ISBN 978 1 4529 5869 9 a b c Biewener Carole Bacque Marie Helen Summer 2015 Feminism and the politics of empowerment in international development Air amp Space Power Journal Africa and Francophonie 6 58 via Gale Academic OneFile a b Research and Analysis DAWN Retrieved 2021 11 09 a b Carroll William K 2015 09 03 Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups Globalizations 12 5 710 727 doi 10 1080 14747731 2014 1001231 ISSN 1474 7731 S2CID 54722042 Carroll William K 2014 Atasoy Yildiz ed Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter Hegemonic Struggle Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity International Political Economy Series London Palgrave Macmillan UK pp 259 284 doi 10 1057 9781137293688 11 ISBN 978 1 137 29368 8 retrieved 2021 11 17 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era amp oldid 1219575295, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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