A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Planet, People, and Prosperity
Redaktion: Comfort, Kelly

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It can be used by students and instructors at undergraduate and postgraduate level from any subject background, particularly, but not exclusively, those in the humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000996449
• Artikelnr.: 68947889

Autorenporträt

Kelly Comfort is Professor in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations'
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) Part 1: Planet: Relating Global Humanities Texts to UN
SDGs 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 15 1. Aya Hanabusa's Holy Island: Nuclear Power
and Political Resistance in Iwaishima, Japan 2. Barbara Dombrowski's
Photographs and Art Installations of People and Landscapes: Tropic Ice:
Dialog Between Places Affected by Climate Change 3. Fabrice Monteiro's The
Prophecy: Trash Art Photography Protests Trashing the Planet 4. Kip
Andersen and Keegan Kuhn's Cowspiracy: Animal Agriculture and the
"Sustainability Secret" Part 2: People: Relating Global Humanities Texts to
UN SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 5. Fernando Contreras Castro's Única Looking at
the Sea: Marginalization, Community, and Politics from a Garbage Dump 6.
Agnès Varda's The Gleaners and I: From Waste to Wonder-A Cinematic Odyssey
on Food Loss and Gleaning 7. Agustina Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh:
Devouring Each Other in Consumerist Society 8. Kief Davidson and Pedro
Kos's Bending the Arc: Public Health Pioneers Fight for Universal Health
Equity Part 3: Prosperity: Relating Global Humanities Texts to UN SDGs 8,
9, 10, 11, and 16 9. Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger: Stagnation or Social
Mobility in Modern India 10. Ivan Sanjinés, Nicolás Ipamo and Alejandro
Noza's Cry of the Forest: Sustainable Development and the Indigenous
Communities of Bolivia 11. Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing": Unequal Time
and Space in a Dystopian City 12. Wang Jiuliang's Plastic China: Unveiling
the Façade of Prosperity Conclusion: Think Global, Act Local: Partnerships
and Projects (SDG 17)