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Indigeneity, Culture and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Authors:
  1. Dominic O’Sullivan

    1. Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia

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  • First scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective
  • Critiques how effectively the SDGs contribute to indigenous people being among those who are ‘not left behind’
  • Suggests ways in which SDGs and their indicators could be revised to support self-determination

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 1-17

  3. Leaving Nobody Behind: Policy Integration, Policy Reform

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 19-37

  4. Indigenous Peoples: Policy, Culture and the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 39-66

  5. Freedom and Culture: Beyond Egalitarian Justice

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 67-87

  6. The Just State

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 89-111

  7. Participation and Presence

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 113-132

  8. National Values, the Goals and the Right to Self-Determination

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 133-157

  9. Self-Determination, Participation and Leadership

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 159-188

  10. Quality Education

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 189-210

  11. Economic Growth

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 211-232

  12. Data Sovereignty—What is Measured and Why?

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 233-256

  13. Conclusion

    • Dominic O’Sullivan
    Pages 257-267

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 269-277
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About this book

This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination. It refers to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and domestic instruments such as New Zealand’s Tiriti o Waitangi to suggest how the goals could be revised to support self-determination as a more far-reaching and ambitious project than the goals imagine in their current form. The book primarily draws its material from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to support analysing the goals’ policy relevance to wealthy states and the political claims that indigenous peoples make in established liberal democracies.

Reviews

“A robust, well-theorised, and incisive critique that exposes the inattention of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the histories, legacies, voices, aspirations, and authority of Indigenous peoples. A timely contribution to contemporary debates on nationhood, sovereignty, Indigenous recognition, and social justice.”

---Professor Tanya Fitzgerald, The University of Western Australia, Australia

“Asserting that Indigenous self-determination is ‘colonialism’s antithesis’, O’Sullivan navigates the interconnected relationships between culture, self-determination, and sustainable development, affirming that continued policy failure in indigenous affairs is not inevitable, and his text presents essential considerations for Indigenous self-determination in multiple indigenous Nations globally.”
---Dr Jessa Rogers, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

"A leader in indigenous political theory, O'Sullivan produces a series of arguments that wrench the UN's Sustainable Development Goals from their non-indigenous biases, in order to preserve the hope that they might serve the whole of humanity. A formidable work of indigenous political theory from one of this emerging discipline's foremost scholars."
---Dr Lindsey MacDonald, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Authors and Affiliations

  • Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia

    Dominic O’Sullivan

About the author

Dominic O’Sullivan is Professor of Political Science at Charles Sturt University, Adjunct Professor at the Auckland University of Technology and Academic Associate at the University of Auckland. He is from the Te Rarawa and Ngati Kahu iwi of New Zealand, and this is his ninth book. The most recent, Sharing the Sovereign: Indigenous Peoples, Recognition, Treaties and the State was published by Palgrave in 2021.

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