This month the Pathways of Women's Empowerment blog will focus on Reclaiming Feminism(s): Gender and Neo-liberalism, a conference held in Brighton on July 9-10, which also kickstarted the ongoing relationship between Pathways and openDemocracy. Many conferences will be held throughout the year, with (but not exclusively) participants from the 5 Pathways hubs, located in Egypt, Bangladesh, the UK, Brazil and Ghana.
The conference gathered around 40 academics and activists from Africa, South America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
The aims of the conference were to:
- - reflect upon the relationship between feminisms and neo-liberalism in the context of international development
- - address the question of whether and how the concepts and principles which shaped gender and development thinking and practice have been appropriated and transformed by neo-liberal
- development institutions and discourses
- - share experiences and perceptions arising from individual and collective struggles both within and beyond the framework of development.
