Engaging Global Power | María Fernanda Espinosa & Meena Raman Power, People and Planet

In the early 1980s there was a slogan: think globally, act locally. Behind the slogan was the idea that, irrespective of the issue we were trying to address at the local or national level, we needed to better understand how global discourse, global processes and global power had the ability to impact what you could or could not achieve at the local or national level. In the 1990s, a feminist organisation from the global South called Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN) said ...