Against the backdrop of Covid-19, this edited volume will utilize a gendered lens to explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a clear focus on challenging the omission of sexuality in relation to the SDGs as well as analyzing the ways in which the SDGs are also equally relevant for Western countries. While acknowledging the importance of these goals, contributors unpack the exclusion of marginalized genders and sexualities as well as how popular media and social media contribute to the wider understanding of issues of gender and sexuality and the SDGs. This volume also dispels assumptions about the irrelevance of SDGs to countries in the West, with a particular focus on the UK. Chapters examine a variety of topics including: HIV/AIDS, sex work, global migration, climate change and environmental sustainability, poverty, education, and sexual harassment. This collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students across Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Education, Development Studies and Sustainability Studies.
Author(s): Drew Dalton, Angela Smith
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 292
City: London
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Photos
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Sustainable Development Goals
Sexuality and the SDGs
SDGs and the Wider Picture When it Comes to Gender and Sexuality
Structure of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Have We Left Behind the Rainbow Warriors? The Climate Emergency and Its Impact on Global Queer People and Their Communities
Introduction
Shifting from ‘Climate Change’ to ‘Climate Emergency’
Giddens and the Climate Emergency as a ‘Back of the Mind Issue’
Hetero/cisnormative Structures and Homogenised Narratives—‘It Effects All of Us Equally’
The Disconnect in Climate Justice Movement Representation
Queer Lives and Communities as ‘Beyond the Back of the Mind’
Queer People and the Climate Emergency—Where Are the Links?
Resistance to This? Queer People and the Climate Emergency
What Needs to Happen Next? Some Recommendations
References
Chapter 3: ‘Developed’: Administrative Violence in Sexual Diversity Asylum Claims at the UK Home Office
Sexual Diversity Asylum Claims in Theory and Practice
The Lived Experiences of Sexually Diverse Refugees
Implications for States and the Sustainable Development Goal Framework
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Vegansexuality: Troubling Gender and Sexuality Norms to Combat Climate Change
Introduction
Global Catastrophe
The Role of Individuals
Meat and Dairy Feed the Crisis
Industrialised Animal Agriculture
Nature’s Revenge?
Meat and the Other
Feminist Recognition of Shared Suffering
Vegan Identity: Creating a Climate for Change
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Ensuring Equitable, Equal, Empowering Education
Why This, Why Now?
Literacy as a Bedrock for Equity
‘The Golden Five’
A Diverse Curriculum
Removing Barriers to Inclusivity
Case Study 1: Shane Elsworth, Vice Principal Academic at Bede Academy, Blyth, Northumberland, UK
Case Study 2: Rosanna Hume, Lead Practitioner for Intervention and Pupil Premium at St Wilfrid’s RC College, South Shields, UK
Pupil Premium Strategies
High-Quality Teaching
Targeted Academic Support
Wider Strategies
Strategically Identifying Children in Need of Support
Girl-Kind
References
Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Paradox: The Economics of Child Marriage and Prevention Within India’s Neoliberal Landscape
Introduction
Global Overview of Child Marriage
Development as an Economic Endeavour
Gender Blindness and Development
Child Marriage as a Development Issue
Poverty, Dowry, and the Commodification of Girls
Development Efforts Through Cash Transfers
The SDG Paradox
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: (In)decent Work for All? How the Decriminalisation of Sex Work Is Crucial to Achieving the SDGs
Acknowledging the Work in Sex Work
Theoretical Perspectives and Legal Regulation
‘Everyone Works, But Not Everyone Is Employed’
The Case for Decriminalisation
Rights for All?
References
Chapter 8: Sharing Stories of an Experience Shared: From ‘Me Too’ as Narrative to #MeToo as Political Movement
Introduction
Small Stories, Big Stories, and Social Networks
Twitter, Public Spaces, and Mediated Narratives
Theoretical Framework
Data Description
Some Numbers
Narratives of Personal Experience
Representing Acts of Sexual Aggression
A Lack of Familiarity with the Medium
A New Discursive Arena
The Me Too Narrative
#MeToo as ‘Second Story’
The ‘Tale’
Me Too #MeToo 2017 Tellers
Forms of Telling
Non-narrative Actions
#MeToo as a Collective
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 9: Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education: A Case Study of an Institution in England
Fourth Wave Feminism in the UK
The Rise of Feminist Activism and the Links with MeToo
The UK Context
Methods
Data and Analysis
Conclusion and Recommendations
References
Chapter 10: Relating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to Trans and Marginalised Gender Identities: Are They Adequate?
Introduction
Trans Identities and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Data and Analysis
The Narratives of Trans Identities in News Media
Debating Identity
Trans People as Drains on Resources
Trans People as Peculiarities and Novelties
The Problematic Language of Gender-Variant Identities in the Media
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Hate, Disgust, and Restrictive Eating: Abusive Comments on Body-Inclusive Posts on Instagram
Introduction
What Is Instagram?
Body Positivity, Body Love, and Body Neutrality
Online Abuse and Hate
Method and Methodology
Data Analysis
Food Restriction
Dignity and Disrespect
Disgust
Weight Bias
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: ‘T’Ain’t Right, T’Ain’t Fair, T’Ain’t Proper’: Examining the Representations of Women in Poldark
Representation, Gender and Adaptation
Domesticity, Laws and Sexual Violence
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Are Stay-at-Home Dads Real Men? The Potential of Critical Media Literacy to Enhance Teacher Training
Introduction
Sustainability Goals
Changing Patterns in Gendered Expectations
Different Ways of Understanding Gender/Agency
Understanding Sustainability in Higher Education
The Contribution of Universal Design for Learning and Multiple Forms of Representation
Graduate Skills
Analysis of Stay-at-Home Fathers in Motherland and Working Moms with Students
Conclusions
References
Index
