Views, events, and debates

• Published in: Gender and development Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 607 - 621
• Main Authors: Cooke, Liz, Francisco, Gigi, Harcourt, Wendy, Farhar, Barbara C., Osnes, Beth, Karve, Priyadarshini, To, Long Seng, Speer, Nicole, Sweetman, Caroline
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge Publishing 01-11-2012
• Subjects: Females; Gender; Globalization; Justice; Poverty; Sex; Social justice; Wealth; Women
• ISSN: 1355-2074; 1364-9221
• DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2012.731759

Here we are profiling the highly respected and highly influential organisation, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, better known as DAWN. For over a quarter of a century DAWN has researched and advocated on economic and gender justice in the South in the face of globalisation, and ever-more polarised degrees of wealth and poverty across the globe. In 1987, DAWN authors Gita Sen and Caren Grown published their groundbreaking book, Development Crises and Alternative Visions, which remains a fixture on gender and development studies reading lists everywhere. A lot of readers will be familiar with the work of Women in Development Europe (WIDE) and may well have attended one or more of their dynamic and inspiring annual conferences, a regular date in the calendar for many of us. Hit by a funding crisis last year, WIDE is now regrouping, and here Wendy Harcourt, WIDE Chair from 2004 to 2008, talks about the network as it plans for the future Reprinted by permission of Oxfam GB