Education for Sustainable Development in an Unequal World

Beniamin Knutsson is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Research Associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Linus Bylund is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Sofie Hellberg is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Jonas Lindberg is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1.Education for Sustainable Development: A Global Enterprise in an Unequal World2.Exploring Education for Sustainable Development Biopolitically3.Global Policy Initiatives: Historical Trajectories and the Biopolitics of the Present4.Winning Differently: Awarding Education for Affluent and Subsistence Lifestyles5.Eco-Schools for Rich and Poor: Global Governmentality6.Eco-Schools for Rich and Poor: The Biopolitical Divide7.Biopolitical ‘Effects’ of Education for Sustainable Development8.Conclusion: Towards Affirmative Alternatives

“Education for sustainable development has been gaining strength in institutional politics, but it has also been seen as a slogan due to its conceptual ambiguity. This book constitutes a proposal from biopolitical theory to seriously consider specific realities, mainly in countries that suffer from great social inequality." Edgar Javier González Gaudiano, Universidad Veracruzana