2020
As corporations across the globe captured more and more of the public sphere, encroaching on all aspects of people’s lives, Public-Private Partnerships have become a powerful tool to achieve what is starting to look like the privatisation of life itself. In “Old Dogs, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & Public-Private Partnerships in the Global South,” DAWN starts a research and brings to life, in the following years, a rich body of work, including case studies, seven animated films, two documentaries, one edition of DAWN Informs, a series of podcasts, and a book, all dedicated to uncovering how people, particularly women from the global South, are affected by neoliberal economic trends and the ongoing worldwide corporate capture of states and public services.
“The value added of this project to the existing research and analysis on PPPs was specifically to apply a feminist analytical framework”, explains Corina Rodríguez Enríquez. “But the study of PPPs should not focus solely on their specific impact on women’s lives. It should rather focus on the way they contribute or not to deepen financial capitalism that has commodified life, plunders land, destroys nature, and advances a predatory system that puts profit ahead of the sustainability of life and the boundaries of the planet.”
