Decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals: Community Perspectives, Social Justice, and the Challenges of Pluralism

This open access book presents innovative and international research critically examining the effects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation on Indigenous and local peoples and linguistic minorities in the Arctic – and elsewhere, with a comparative focus. It includes anthropological studies and authors from different social and human sciences who engage synergistically with anthropological research. The volume presents knowledge that has been produced together with Indigenous communities and individuals. Its practical goal is to contribute critical knowledge to inform global environmental governance in order to fulfill better its purpose of increasing sustainable use of nature while improving the implementation of Indigenous rights and wellbeing.

Reetta Toivanen is Full Professor in Sustainability Science (Indigenous sustainabilities) at the Helsinki Institute for Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Faculty of Humanities, and a docent in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Vladislava Vladimirova is an Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology and a Senior Lecturer in Eurasian Studies at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Carl-Gösta Ojala is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Associate Professor at the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Japan.