New Debates and Implementations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A Critical Social Anthropology Perspective

This Working Paper critically discusses the extent to which local knowledge, participation and historical power relations concerning globalized resource use and management are included in the SDGs. The students discussed specific examples and investigated the question of how development and environmental protection projects are legitimised by means of SDGs and which elements of James Ferguson’s anti-politics machine are applicable. There was also a focus on local reactions and their analysis