WCAA Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals

Nov. 9 -2024
Holiday Inn, Sunnyside Park, Johannesburg

Keynote Address.
9:00-10:00
  • Localising Agenda 2030: Tasks for anthropology in achieving the SDGs

Thomas Reuter (Australia)

 
SDGs in the World.
10:00-11:00
  • A Somewhat Skeptical Look at SDGs: Is Cultural Universalism Global North Imperialism?
    Gordon Mathews (Hong Kong)

  • Migration and the Sustainable Development Agenda 

Ed Liebow (United States)

  • SDG6 and an Engaged Anthropology of Water

Chandana Mathur (Ireland) 

 
Coffee Break
11:00-11:20
 
SDGs in Australia and Asia
11:20-12:50
  • 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)

 
Lunch
12:50-2:00
SDGs in Africa
2:00-2:45
  • 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
2:45-4:15
  • 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) 

 
Coffee Break
4:15-4:30 
 
SDGs in Europe
4:30-6:15
  • ‘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 (Vale da Amoreira): 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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