1st Edition

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

Edited By Clive Gabay, Suzan Ilcan Copyright 2019
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword: The Shared Humanity of Global Development: Bio-politics and the SDGs  Introduction: Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals  1. Universal Access to Affordable Housing? Interrogating an Elusive Development Goal  2. Politics of Poverty: The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Business of Agriculture  3. Are Equity and Sustainability a Likely Outcome When Foxes and Chickens Share the Same Coop? Critiquing the Concept of Multistakeholder Governance of Food Security  4. Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda  5. Migration and Development after 2015  6. Re-centring ‘Race’ in Development: Population Policies and Global Capital Accumulation in the Era of the SDGs  7. Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda  8. The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data

Biography

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.