2022 -2024
As China advances its most ambitious international strategies—including the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), BRICS cooperation, and expanding regional partnerships—its influence across the global South has profound social, economic, and political implications. While much analysis has focused on infrastructure, trade, and geopolitics, DAWN foregrounds the often-overlooked gendered dimensions of this engagement.
The ‘GeGender impact of China’s engagement in the Global South’ research project investigates how China’s projects intersect with labour rights, environmental sustainability, care economies, and the everyday lives of women and marginalized communities.
DAWN presents initial findings in a DAWN Informs publication launched at CSW 2023, followed by two webinars that expand the dialogue with feminist scholars and activists. The project grows into a book—first released in Spanish and Chinese in 2025, with the English edition forthcoming—that critically situates China’s role within broader debates on development justice, global governance, and feminist political economy.
