Nov. 9, 2024 – WCAA Symposium on “Anthropology and the Sustainable Development Goals.”

Keynote: “Localising Agenda 2030: A tasks for anthropology in achieving the SDGs” Thomas Reuter (Australia) 9-10 

SDGs in the World. 10-11

The Idea of SDGs: Cultural Relativism and Global North Imperialism
Gordon Mathews (Hong Kong)

Migration and the Sustainable Development Agenda
Ed Leibow (United States)

SDG6 and an Engaged Anthropology of Water
Chandana Mathur (Ireland) 

SDGs in Southeast and East Asia 11:15-12:45

Anthropologists Confronting the SDGs in Indonesia and Malaysia: Integrating Sustainability in Local Anthropological Accounts and Actions
Greg Acciaioli (Australia)

Embracing the SDGs as a way to render anthropological value explicit: a challenge for Australian anthropology.
Tim Pilbrow (Australia)

Localizing Global Goals:
Filipino Anthropologists’ Approaches to the Sustainable Development Goals
Skilty Labastilla (Philippines)

Sustainable Development Goals as Universal Good and Local Good: The case of Japan
Junji Koizumi (Japan)

SDGs in Africa 1:45-2:30

On the chasm between sanitation SDGs and everyday sanitation practices in informal settlements.
Andrew Spiegel (South Africa)

 

“We did help ourselves already where is the recognition and what can we learn from each other and not just thinking we have done nothing”: SDGs in Namibia
Rosa Johnson (Namibia)

SDGs in Latin America 2:30-4:00

Title: Feminist Anthropologists in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Gender Equity Goal
Marisa Ruiz Trejo (Mexico)

Is intercultural health attainable in contexts of interethnic friction and inequality? Obstacles in the access to health among indigenous peoples in Argentina in the context UN Sustainable Development Goals for Health
Silvia Hirsch (Argentina)

The multistakeholder process under ODS (SDGs) in Brazil: when participation becomes coloniality
Andréa Zhouri (Brazil)

What can we learn from ecological cinema about climate emergencies, social (in)justice and the struggles for the lives of places and people?
Bela Feldman-Bianco (Brazil) 

SDGs in Europe 4:15-6:00

‘Localising’ Sustainability. Green transition, public engagement and social awareness in European Union’s cities fundings.
Pateraki Mimina (Greece) 

Anthropological perspective on Agenda 2030 and strategies for sustainable urban development in Serbia.
Vesna Vucinic Neskovic (Serbia)

Sustainable Development Goals in a Lisbon Metropolitan Area neighbourhood: realities and utopias.
Clara Saraiva (Portugal)

Sustainable Development goals. Considerations from an Italian perspective
Francesca Declich (Italy)

Sustainable Development Goals – Anthropology in the Czech Republic
Leonardo Schiocchet (Austria)

 

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