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Kinsey Dialogue Series #4: Claiming Global Space: Global Grassroots Movements
The influence of transnational civil society organizations and networks - both civil and uncivil - in global politics and unprecedented. Among them, those dedicated to greater social and economic equity and equality, to human security, ecological sustainability, peace, inclusion, and tolerance, have played a particularly effective role in restructuring the norms that inform policy and regulatory frameworks for the world. Some scholarly analysts grant that they have in fact effectively restructured global politics in visible and lasting ways. For this very reason, perhaps, their legitimacy, accountability and constituency base is being challenged by states, multinational corporations, scholars, and leaders of the powerful global institutions they seek to influence or discipline. These challenges make it imperative that they democratize their own structures and the processes by which they generate their agendas. They also bring into the limelight the emerging set of transnational grassroots networks and movements that are contesting for space in global policy making. These newer entities can teach us a great deal about how to create more grounded, constituency-based, accountable global advocacy structures that embody the right to represent those for whom they speak
Feminist Mentoring For Feminist Futures Part 1: The Theory
Feminist leadership is essential for transformation at the individual level, as well as organizations and movements, and has been one of CREA's core strategies since its inceptionHowever, translating feminist leadership from concept to practice is a challenging task. The work of undoing and rebuilding systemic and internalized models of power and leadership requires structured and ongoing support â namely, feminist mentoring. In 2016, CREA and Global Fund for Women designed the SAYWLM (South Asia Young Women's Leadership and Mentoring) initiative to build a cadre of young feminist leaders and movement builders through a process of systematic mentoring. This initiative's theory and practice of feminist mentoring breaks traditional models of mentoring that often do not interrogate patriarchal power structures â including in the mentoring relationship itself â and pioneered a model that centers and performs feminist values in the mentoring context. It also demonstrated the vital role that mentoring can play in strengthening feminist leadership in practice.Based on the learning from this initiative, the three-part guide 'Feminist Mentoring for Feminist Futures' was developed to support others who wish to explore the feminist mentoring pathway. The guide explores the theory and practice of feminist mentoring and its impact on both Mentors and young women leaders
Crossborder feminisms: Wendy harcourt in conversation with Srilatha Batliwala, Sunila Abeysekera and Rawwida Baksh
Wendy Harcourt interviews three feminist activists who have been engaged in feminist action from the grassroots to transnational levels. They reflect on changes in feminist and women's movement organizing, both in terms of what are the new issues emerging today and what feminist organizing has given to transformational movement building
Contextualizing womenâs agency in marital negotiations:Muslim and Hindu women in Karnataka, India
We use 36 in-depth interviews, with 18 Muslim and 18 Hindu women in Karnataka, India, to explore the relationships between womenâs educational attainments and womenâs exercise of agency in spousal selection and the timing of marriage. We have outlined three kinds of agency, namely, convinced, resistance, and complicit, and the contexts in which they were deployed by our participants during their marriage negotiations. Our examination of the role of education across this spectrum of agential capacities during marriage negotiations suggests that the linkages between education and agency are not straightforward. Rather, the normative context, and how parents and daughters interact with it when fixing marriages, makes the use of agency by the woman and by their parents much more complicated than standard narratives that claim that âmodernâ education for girls will inevitably enable women to play decisive roles in realizing their personal preferences. Our data lead us to challenge this framework and we argue that the link between education and agency is not always positive and linear, as it widely thought to be
Os mitos de gĂȘnero que instrumentalizam as mulheres: uma visĂŁo da âlinha de frenteâ indiana
Conservation Genetics of the North American Box Turtle
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Appropriating âGenderâ and âEmpowermentâ: The Resignification of Feminist Ideas in Nigeria's Neoliberal Reform Programme
Liberal vs. Liberating Empowerment: A Latin American Feminist Perspective on Conceptualising Women's Empowerment
Paper prepared for presentation to the Conference:
Reclaiming Feminism â Gender and Neo-Liberalism,
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK,
9-10 July 2007. A previous version of this paper was
presented at the Pathways of Womenâs Empowerment
Research Programme Consortium Inception
Workshop, Luxor, Egypt, September 2006.The term âwomenâs empowermentâ is viewed with
a certain amount of distrust by feminists in Latin
America. There has been some ambiguity
surrounding the term in the region and in some
cases it has been appropriated to legitimise
actions that may not actually empower. This paper
reflects on feminist conceptualisations of
empowerment and how the process is believed to
unfold. It outlines two basic approaches to
conceptualising empowerment: âliberalâ and
âliberatingâ empowerment. It argues that âliberalâ
empowerment depoliticises the process by taking
the âpowerâ out of the equation, whilst âliberatingâ
empowerment keeps power as the central issue.
The latter approach is consistent with the Latin
American tradition of collective action and, in
conclusion, the paper contends that
empowerment in its âliberatingâ form has been at
work in the region since at least the late 1970s
The Power of Relationships: Love and Solidarity in a Landless Women's Organisation in Rural Bangladesh
This article examines the significance of social relationships in women's lives and their relevance to processes of women's empowerment. In Bangladesh, traditional structures limit women's social interaction to their immediate family and maintain male responsibility over them. However, here we look at the example of Saptagram â a social mobilisation organisation particularly focused against gender injustice towards rural landless Bangladeshi women â and how by providing relationships beyond the private sphere it engendered bonds of friendship and loyalty amongst its beneficiaries. Difficulties with systems and its inability to recruit a new line of leadership led to its apparent failure at one point. Yet, despite this, by providing knowledge of rights, respect, courage to stand up for one's beliefs and a sense of wellbeing through working alongside people in the villages, it inspired an enduring solidarity amongst the women it served which led to its eventual resurrection
Whose money is it? on misconceiving female autonomy and economic empowerment in low-income households
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