Women in Action articles from August 2005

Women in Action archives from August 2005

A governance of marketability over a governance of care.(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... Fundamentalisms impact on women's lives and bodies in multiple ways. From direct control over women's bodies, to the use of women as national symbols. Fundamentalists have a chameleon like nature, being able to successfully manipulate the...

Trade in mass media services: another case of contending public and private spaces *.
August 1, 2005... The impetus for "progressive liberalisation (1)" in the trade in services has prompted a serious look at the impact of this policy on various services sectors. Among the sectors that women and feminists have decided to study is the audio-visual...

Instrumentalising the women's agenda for trade liberalisation.
August 1, 2005... By International Gender and Trade Network IGTN calls for securing soda/reproduction, not markets. The WTO only follows the logic and language of the market and is blind to the demands of social reproduction. It restricts policy options into...

Thailand's working class women.
August 1, 2005... Introduction Since the '70s Decade for Women, feminists from developing countries have sought to create a bottom-up empowerment approach to development that would break down existing class, culture, state, and gender structures. In a study...

Local actors in global politics.(ComMunity IndePenDent MediA)(local activists)
August 1, 2005... The infrastructure of globalisation Globalisation and the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled a variety of local activists and organisations to enter international arenas once exclusive to national states....

Mapping an ignored agenda: Internet governance at the WSIS.(ComMunity IndePenDent MediA)(World Summit on the Information Society)
August 1, 2005... Introduction A critical issue which is both a good and a bad barometer of the information society (IS) discourse at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) today is the issue of Internet governance (Ig). Within the negotiating...

Mariama Williams on feminists engaging in trade advocacy.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Isis close to "kidnapped" Mariama Williams for an interview shortly after the forum on domestic regulations sponsored by the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN), Fair Trade Alliance (FTA) and Oxfam-UK last August 2005 in Quezon City,...

Informal women workers in an age of globalisation.(TaLkinG poiNts)
August 1, 2005... For the poor, the world has always been an insecure place. However, with bad economic conditions loosening community ties and straining family-based mutual aid, insecurity and anxiety inevitably increase. Insecurity also increases under...

Challenges to economic fundamentalism: Venezuelan Women and the "Bolivarian Revolution".
August 1, 2005... Neoliberalism, political-religious fundamentalisms and militarisation represent major challenges for the international feminist movement today. These phenomena are interdependent and feed off each other. The economic power of neoliberal...

The narrative of homo economicus.
August 1, 2005... Neoclassical 1 economics can be seen as a meta-narrative. As a narrative or a story, it weaves together phenomena, causalities, and facts into a coherent whole, but it is one of many possible interpretations of what may be relevant for...

Reclaiming the state: a documentary film features women from the global South and their views about the erosion of state power in the globalized neoliberal economy.(Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist Perspectives from the South)(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... The women of the South are worse off today as a result not only of the tradeoffs that have been made to further the goals of a globalized economy, but also of the continued erosion of the power of the state. States and governance have been...

Amy Chua's World on Fire.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Reflections on Market Dominant Ethnic Minorities The book "World on Fire," by Yale Law Professor, Amy Chua is about a "pervasive but rarely acknowledged phenomenon that turns free market democracy into an engine of ethnic conflagration."...