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WILPF Launches New Feminist Political Economy Learning Series for Members

WILPF is thrilled to announce the launch of the new Feminist Political Economy (FPE) Learning Series – a new learning resource available exclusively for members on WILPF’s membership portal, myWILPF.

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WILPF is thrilled to announce the launch of the new Feminist Political Economy (FPE) Learning Series – a new learning resource available exclusively for members on WILPF’s membership portal, myWILPF.

With six modules being released between August and December, the series aims to strengthen members’ understanding of political economy, the importance of feminist analysis of political economy, and how to promote peace, freedom, and justice through feminist political economy.

Watch this short video introducing why WILPF thinks feminist political economy analysis is important:

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Learn more about Feminist Political Economy in this video. Credits: WILPF

Members can also join WILPF’s FPE WhatsApp group to keep the conversation going, ask questions, and connect with others interested in this topic. Email nela.porobic@wilpf.org to join the group.

Through these modules, we hope to shine a light on what might sound like an academic topic. But understanding feminist political economy is not an academic exercise – it is a necessity to promote WILPF’s concept of feminist peace.

Module release dates:

Module 1: Introduction to (Feminist) Political Economy / August 2022

Module 2: Feminist Political Economy and its Tools / September 2022

Module 3: Explaining Capitalism and Neoliberalism and How We Can Challenge Them / October 2022

Module 4: Feminist Alternatives to Capitalist Political Economy / October 2022

Module 5: Investing in Peace / November 2022

Module 6: How to do Feminist Political Economy Research and Analysis / December 2022

Once uploaded, all learning modules will be available under the Learning Toolkit on myWILPF, complemented with additional resources that include:

Members can also join WILPF’s FPE WhatsApp group to keep the conversation going, ask questions, and connect with others interested in this topic. Email nela.porobic@wilpf.org to join the group.

Through these modules, we hope to shine a light on what might sound like an academic topic. But understanding feminist political economy is not an academic exercise – it is a necessity to promote WILPF’s concept of feminist peace.

“Formulating alternatives to current political economy, grounded in sound feminist political economy analysis, is not only about having great ideas that add women into the mix but about thinking about how to transform the current structures and create conditions for the achievement of feminist peace.”Nela Porobić Isaković, WILPF

Credits: WILPF

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Feminist Political Economy

Feminist Political Economy

We live in a world dominated by capitalism and neoliberalism, even though there is ample proof of how harmful, exploitative, destructive, and unjust these systems are.

National governments, as well as international financial institutions, impose capitalist, and neoliberal policies on us on daily basis. They create institutions and practices built entirely in support to capitalist political economy and they measures our development and well-being by how much we produce, how much we consume, and the amount of money that circulates in our societies. We are told that no other systems are possible, and we are not supposed to question how wealth is created, how it is being distributed, to what end, or who it harms.

But WILPF’s vision of a permanent peace cannot be built within such a system. That is why WILPF uses feminist political economy analysis to:

  • analyse and make known the systems of oppression in our societies that lead to precarity, inequality, exploitation, conflicts, and destruction;
  • dismantle these systems and reimagine alternatives that build sustainable, feminist, demilitarised societies based on equality, justice, solidarity, and care.

Economic policies should be based on how we want our societies governed, and our resources distributed, as well as our relationship to the planet.

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