Welcome to the International Women's Day edition of

WEGO in Action

Two years ago, on IWD, with purple balloons, cake and music, WEGO was launched, and I gave my inaugural lecture called 'Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development, Take II'. WEGO is now firmly putting feminist political ecology (FPE) on the academic and activist map. First in the different localities where WEGO PhDs are doing their research. Second, in various academic venues. And third, in different feminist and social movement campaigns. 

We could have foreseen some of these achievements two years ago. What we could not have foreseen is the way WEGO is working together, with care, and with hope. Even when not everything has gone completely as expected, we have pulled together to overcome the problems, individually or as a network. This is what IWD is about, continuing to confront together the difficult issues as women (of whatever body, age, race, class, ethnicity we identify or perform). As we celebrate IWD 2020 in different places, it is good to reflect on how important WEGO is as a feminist network, connecting across generations, moving beyond academic goals to work in solidarity, fully aware of the bigger ecological political, economic and social picture. There is much to celebrate as well as to overcome. But one thing we have definitely learned, reading about the damage of plastics for the Earth, is that any sustainable celebration cannot include balloons, of whatever colour. 

Wendy Harcourt  1 March 2020

News and views
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6th March 2020
Feminist communitarian organization in times of femicides. Insights from the second international encounter of women who fight
From the 26th to the 29th of December 2019, the “Segundo encuentro internacional de mujeres que luchan” (Second International Encounter of Women who Fight) took place in the territory/community of “Los Zapatistas” in Chiapas Mexico. This community that emerged in…
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4th March 2020
Starting the other way round? Reflections on my PhD journey
Within WEGO, I am enrolled as a non-resident PhD at ISS in The Hague while being based in Rome. The virtue of starting my PhD journey moving to the country where I will also carry out my research - Italy…
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28th February 2020
Progressive engagements with the challenges and needs of women in an aging society.
On a Friday morning in February, Nanako Nakamura visited the Older Women's Network in Sydney that she was referred to by one of her Australian grannies. In 1987, motivated by women members of the Combined Pensioners Association, the Older Women’s…
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24th February 2020
Aging and environment: towards intergenerational thinking
Constance Dupuis presented her research design seminar on 21 February at the Institute of Social Studies, suggesting that there are many fruitful discussions to be had at the intersection of aging and environment. She sets out to ask: How can we…
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4th February 2020
Count them in: documentary on gender equality in science
Students at IHE Delft have produced a documentary entitled 'Count them in' on gender equality in science featuring Margreet Zwarteveen and Wendy Harcourt.    
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1st February 2020
How are communities responding to climate crisis, and what can we learn from them?
WEGO coordinator Wendy Harcourt  was interviewed by Erasmus University Rotterdam. Read the full interview. “We are looking at how communities are responding to climate crisis in order to understand how to link this to a global understanding of resilience”  
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14th November 2019
Flower farmers in a dry land
Irene Leonardelli recently defended her research proposal at lHE Delft Her research entitled 'Flower Farmers in a Dry Land: A feminist ethnography of agrarian change and water flows in Maharashtra, India' focuses on how farmers in the rural areas of Maharashtra,…
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Events
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2nd March 2020
#EachforEqual: international women’s day 2020
International Women’s Day 2020 will be celebrated on March 8th. With the hashtag #EachforEqual, the campaign for 2020 is focusing on a gender equal world.  The IWD 2020 campaign emphasises…
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16th February 2020
Food security summer studies in Italy
Food Security and Resilience  Bolsena, 25 May - 5 June 2020  Tulane University food security summer studies in Italy Residential course (graduate, 3 credits) with full board accommodation, domestic transportation, and…
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1st February 2020
WEGO at POLLEN 20: ecologies of care
WEGO is happy to announce that its proposal for a ‘Paper Session’ entitled ‘Ecologies of Care I – Politics and ethics of care’ has been accepted for inclusion in the POLLEN 20…
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14th January 2020
Practising feminist political ecology: building knowledge communities
The WEGO proposal for a roundtable on ‘Practising feminist political ecology: building knowledge communities’ has been accepted for the 16th The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)…
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14th January 2020
Living well-together: feminism, degrowth and the ‘good life'
The WEGO proposal on ‘Living well-together: feminism, degrowth and the ‘good life’ has been accepted for the 7th International Degrowth and 16th ISEE Joint Conference: Building Alternative Livelihoods in times…
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Publications

Acknowledgement

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764908.

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