Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of Southern feminist scholars, researchers and activists working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development, through research, analyses, advocacy and\u00a0training. It was established in 1984 and launched publicly at the 1985 World Conference on Women at Nairobi.<\/p>\n
Through analysis and advocacy efforts, DAWN strives to \u2018translate\u2019 feminist political economic and political ecological analysis into \u2018advocacy demands\u2019 and to help movements use those demands to push governments to enact change. Four areas of focus make up its core analysis and advocacy efforts:<\/p>\n
Based on work stemming from these research themes, which make up a number of books and publications,[ii]<\/a> DAWN has engaged in advocacy within intergovernmental processes (including for example RIO+20). Yet, its project is equally focused on \u2018networking<\/strong>\u2019 with movements and on \u2018training<\/strong>.\u2019 Such networking involves engaging extensively and dialogically with grassroots movements (through seminars and workshops), which allows for the production of bottom-up knowledge with <\/em>them, as well as bringing to them interlinkage analyses that are more structural and critical and which together contest neoliberal capitalism\u2019s dominant narrative. Training (which is accomplished though the creation of training institutes, which act as spaces for intensive participatory education) is a way to multiply this analysis and knowledge, so that young feminists can use it for change.<\/p>\n From its inception, DAWN\u2019s knowledge production and mobilization strategies have been defined by its focus on women of the Global South. Yet, through a holistic, interlinkage perspective that entails political- economic and political-ecological critique, it has always stood for overcoming all forms of oppression.<\/p>\n Links<\/strong><\/p>\n DAWN Website<\/a><\/p>\n DAWN Wiki Article<\/a><\/p>\n Endnotes<\/strong><\/p>\n [i]<\/a> See http:\/\/www.dawnnet.org\/feminist-resources\/analyses\/main<\/a>, accessed February 17, 2015.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> Many of which are available at http:\/\/www.dawnnet.org\/feminist-resources\/archive\/main<\/a>, accessed February 17, 2015<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of Southern feminist scholars, researchers and activists working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development, through research, analyses, advocacy and\u00a0training. It was established in 1984 and launched publicly at the 1985 World Conference on Women at Nairobi. Through analysis and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1734,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions\/251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}