Decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals
Description
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.
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Persons
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.
Content
1. A critical analysis of the emergence of the SDG discourse: Introduction to the book.- 2. Colonialism and Sustainable Development in Sapmi: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.- 3. Decolonizing conservation in a melting Arctic: Indigenous protected areas and the co-production of knowledge.- 4. "Do we need to make space for your electronic cars?" European green energy deals and impacts on Sápmi Indigenous lands.- 5. Clean energy investments and Indigenous Peoples rights: the case for corporate sustainability.- 6. Interrogating the Nexus of Social Sustainability, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial Perspectives: A Content Analysis of Human Rights Language in SDG Discourse.- 7. The New Norrland: (Re)making an Industrial Heartland and Indigenous Homeland for Sweden's "Green Transition".- 8. Indigenous lessons on how to slaughter a polar bear: Exploring sustainability in a local and indigenous setting.- 9. Green is the new brown for the Sámi people - The clean "green" energy transition is brown colonisation of Sámi Indigenous territories and culture.- 10. Rovaniemi Unsettling hopes - Sustainability and the politics of future-making.- 11. Figurative invisibility and paradigmatic blindness in sustainable development discourse.- 12. Sustainable Development Goal 5 and Indigenous Women Empowerment in the Arctic.- 13. Sustainability without the Commons? The Colonial Legacies of the Sustainable Development Goals.- 14. More-than-human inequalities of wind energy development in the Finnish North.