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- Liverman critiques the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by emphasizing the need to understand the social and political agreement behind the indicators used to measure success.
- The author advocates for viewing development goals as dynamic and evolving, acknowledging that poverty and justice are experiences that vary across different groups and over time.
- To improve effectiveness, the SDGs should focus on the lived realities and performances of individuals and communities, rather than relying solely on superficial statistics.
Article Abstract
Building on Liverman's critique of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I argue SDGs must be conceptualized as 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 , rather than as they
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124003 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820618780790 | DOI Listing |
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