Nightingale, Andrea
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Building on Liverman's critique of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I argue SDGs must be conceptualized as situated by (i) unpacking the black box of social, political and intellectual consensus behind indicators and (ii) reimagining development goals as dynamic performances that are uneven over time and space for both populations and individuals. Poverty, justice and other targets of SDGs are not a state of being but rather a punctuated experience for the individuals and populations in question. For the SDGs to be effective, they need to go beyond simple statistics to account for how situated, performative aspects of lives evolve, rather than as they are.
Keywords
consensus science; development pathways; indicators; ontological politics; poverty; situated performances
Published in
Dialogues in human geography
2018, volume: 8, number: 2, pages: 196-200
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG1 No poverty
SDG13 Climate action
UKÄ Subject classification
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618780790
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/96363