The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals : Leaving No-one Behind?

Clive (Queen Mary University of London Gabay

ISBN 10: 1138591130 / ISBN 13: 9781138591134

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug 2018, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals : Leaving No-one Behind?
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138591130
• ISBN 13: 9781138591134
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 360W x 194H x 16D millimeters 360 millimeters width by 194 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 510 grams

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Synopsis

This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance. Through a series of analyses of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this book explores development as a political construct, and is concerned with the kinds of epistemological, hegemonic, or politico-economic assumptions built into contemporary development policy, and the ensuing effectiveness the SDGs will have in terms of addressing or perpetuating the historical impoverishment of large groups of people living in poverty. The contributors to the book take issue with many of the assumptions upon which SDGs rest, while also broadening the conversation to pay attention to knowledge production, modernity, colonialism, exclusion, citizenship, and other conceptual insights. In this context, the book raises questions about the discourses and practices of the SDGs, especially in relation to how they can: define the limits of what can be said and what can be done; shape development logics through notions of division and forms of exclusion; construct political problems as technical problems; create certain spaces of imagination as a field of activity; and endorse particular ideas and forms of knowledge in models for sustainable development.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

About the Author

Clive Gabay is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics. He works on issues related to development, colonialism, race and anarchism.

Suzan Ilcan is a Professor of Sociology. She conducts research on development and humanitarian aid, migration, and citizenship and social justice.