`Tensions in Activism: navigating in global spaces at the
intersections of state/civil society & gender/economic Justice ‘
Workshop on Gender & Globalisation in Asia and the Pacific:
Feminist Revisions of the International
Claire Slatter
General Co-ordinator, DAWN
Lecturer, History/Politics Department, USP
The twin aims of this workshop are to cross the theory/practice and academic/activist divides, and to locate gender/Asia/Australia within the framework of both the political economy of globalisation and growing transnational links, as feminists use new global technologies and regional and international fora for feminist purposes (Pettman, pers.comm). Both these aims find resonance in DAWN’s work of building critical South feminist analyses of global issues, strategically locating itself as a feminist network within the paradoxical spaces opened up by globalisation, and engaging with other networks in its advocacy for economic and gender justice.
In 1985, when DAWN produced its first global analysis – a critical appraisal of women’s development experience and a South feminist critique of the dominant, economic growth model of development – we articulated a vision.
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