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Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs: Introduction to Special Issue

Fukuda‐Parr, Sakiko ; McNeill, Desmond

Global policy, 2019-01, Vol.10 (S1), p.5-15 [Periódico revisado por pares]

London: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

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  • Título:
    Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs: Introduction to Special Issue
  • Autor: Fukuda‐Parr, Sakiko ; McNeill, Desmond
  • Assuntos: Access ; Agriculture ; Big Data ; Data management ; Epistemology ; Governance ; Indicators ; Justice ; Negotiations ; Politics ; Slippage ; Sustainable agriculture ; Sustainable development
  • É parte de: Global policy, 2019-01, Vol.10 (S1), p.5-15
  • Descrição: The papers in this special issue provide accounts of the politics and knowledge that shaped the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The open and transparent processes in the Open Working Group (OWG) and Post‐2015 agenda consultations challenged the MDG paradigm and set more transformative and ambitious goals. But across many goals, there was slippage in ambition when targets and indicators were selected. In some cases, this is due to genuine difficulty in defining a suitable indicator. In other cases, there is clearly a contestation about the agenda, and indicators are used to reorient or pervert the meaning of the goal. The accounts of the negotiations– concerning inequality, sustainable agriculture, access to justice, education, environment – show how the selection of an indicator is purportedly a technical matter but is highly political, though obscured behind the veil of an objective and technical choice. The papers also highlight how the increasing role of big data and other non‐traditional sources of data is altering data production, dissemination and use, and fundamentally altering the epistemology of information and knowledge. This raises questions about ‘data for whom and for what’ – fundamental issues concerning the power of data to shape knowledge, the democratic governance of SDG indicators and of knowledge for development overall. The case studies in this special issue illustrate how the real locus of power in setting international agendas has shifted to the selection of indicators. The exercise of power takes place through multiple steps in the process of setting the goals, and measuring them; and it is, for the most part, obscured in what are purportedly strictly technical processes with technocrats in charge.
  • Editor: London: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
  • Idioma: Inglês;Norueguês
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