New Group on Gender and Development Practice
Forthcoming meeting and call for papers
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DSA study group meeting: the Gender and development practice study group
Untangling the Knots: Revisioning Feminist Engagement with Development
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Tuesday
February 5th, 11am-
4pm
The Friends Meeting House, Room 9
Euston Road
London WC1
[just opposite Euston train station]
The drive to mainstream gender and make it acceptable to the bureaucracies of
aid has ripped the heart of the commitment to promote women’s rights and
enable women to change their position in society that led feminists to engage
with development. The political project of women mobilizing for change and
empowering themselves seems to have got lost along the way. “Gender”
became a password, then a catchword, and – some would say – it’s now
become a hollow buzzword, robbed of its political and analytical bite. And
“feminism” fell out of view, a term considered too harsh and too
confrontational by some, and too much of a throwback by others. So where are
we now? Is it time to revive the F-word and rehabilitate the G-word and find a
way to put both to use to further the struggle for justice and equality for
all in an ever more unequal and violent world? What would it take to untangle
the knots and revitalise a gender agenda that’s run adrift?
Come and join an exciting discussion about future directions for feminist
engagement with development and hear from a diversity of speakers, including
Henrietta Moore from the LSE, Oxfam’s Jo Rowlands, Zimbabwean feminist
digital artist Tessa Lewin and a number of others working across the
academy-policy-practice interface. Speakers will open a debate to be pursued
in intimate small group discussions and plenary, as part of a process aimed at
the creation of a space to imagine alternatives and think to the future.
The
workshop will be convened by Andrea Cornwall of IDS and Tina Wallace, Convenor
of the DSA Study Group on Gender, Policy and Development Practice.
Sandwiches, tea and coffee will be provided.
To keep discussions intimate and focused, the workshop will have limited
places. Please register by contacting Tina Wallace on tinawallace11@aol.com.
For those who have already registered your interest with GAD network, please
confirm your attendance. Due to the size of the venue, all of those who have
not registered will risk being turned away.
Tina Wallace
Convener, DSA study group on gender policy and development practice.
Page last updated: 16 February, 2007