Sammanfattning

The Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) have evoked optimism but have also been criticized for reproducing a universal template grounded in a western and neoliberal ideology. Identifying three strands of responses/critiques on the SDGs from a review of literature across several disciplines, I analyze what they have to say in the light of histories of past development work. I analyze how universalism is understood differently in different disciplinary approaches and how, despite its limitations, Agenda 2030 might provide a platform to meet current challenges across the world and a framework to talk across different geographies and disciplines. While a delinking from current development and global economic structures are needed for change, I explore how the SDGs can be used to redeploy development to change those very structures. I argue that decolonizing development calls for changing development structures from inside out as much as finding new ways of being outside it.

Nyckelord

Sustainable development goals; Global governance; Indicators; Universalism; Development Critiques

Publicerad i

Futures
2023, Volym: 146, artikelnummer: 103087
Utgivare: ELSEVIER SCI LTD

SLU författare

• Arora Jonsson, Seema

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Globaliseringsstudier


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103087

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/121242