Decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals

Reetta Toivanen is Full Professor in Sustainability Science (Indigenous sustainabilities) at the Helsinki Institute for Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and a docent in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Vladislava Vladimirova is an Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology and a Senior Lecturer in Eurasian Studies at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden.Carl-Gösta Ojala is Senior Lecturer in archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Associate Professor at the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Japan.

• 1. A critical analysis of the emergence of the SDG discourse: Introduction to the book.- 2. Colonialism and Sustainable Development in Sapmi: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.- 3. Decolonizing conservation in a melting Arctic: Indigenous protected areas and the co-production of knowledge.- 4. “Do we need to make space for your electronic cars?” European green energy deals and impacts on Sápmi Indigenous lands.- 5. Clean energy investments and Indigenous Peoples rights: the case for corporate sustainability.- 6. Interrogating the Nexus of Social Sustainability, Indigenous Rights, and Postcolonial Perspectives: A Content Analysis of Human Rights Language in SDG Discourse.- 7. The New Norrland: (Re)making an Industrial Heartland and Indigenous Homeland for Sweden’s “Green Transition”.- 8. Indigenous lessons on how to slaughter a polar bear: Exploring sustainability in a local and indigenous setting.- 9. Green is the new brown for the Sámi people – The clean “green” energy transition is brown colonisation of Sámi Indigenous territories and culture.- 10. Rovaniemi Unsettling hopes – Sustainability and the politics of future-making.- 11. Figurative invisibility and paradigmatic blindness in sustainable development discourse.- 12. Sustainable Development Goal 5 and Indigenous Women Empowerment in the Arctic.- 13. Sustainability without the Commons? The Colonial Legacies of the Sustainable Development Goals.- 14. More-than-human inequalities of wind energy development in the Finnish North.