Doing Biopolitics Differently? Radical Potential in the Post-2015 MDG and SDG Debates
Doing Biopolitics Differently? Radical Potential in the Post-2015 MDG and SDG Debates
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以不同的方式进行生命政治？
DOI：
10.1080/14747731.2015.1033172
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
C. Gabay
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作者：
C. Death;C. Gabay
摘要千年发展目标(MDG)被批评为一个雄心勃勃的项目，试图产生创业的新自由主义主题。从这个角度来看，2015年后辩论的机会和危险比愤世嫉俗地将千年发展目标斥为“最低发展目标”更为紧迫。这篇文章指出了全球可持续发展目标(SDGs)提案可能带来的两个发展话语的根本性转变：第一，它们可能真正是全球性的，从而破坏“发达”社会和“发展中”社会之间长期存在的分歧；第二，它们可能会挑战现有的资源密集型发展的增长路径。通过两种情景，这些潜在的转变正在显现：第一，2015年后议程以现状和增长为导向的结果；第二，更彻底地恢复发展，使其成为全球可持续发展的变革性项目。然而，即使像后者这样表面上有吸引力的前景也存在潜在的危险，无论它是否可能，本文强调了这一点。因此，无论关于2015年后可持续发展目标的谈判结果如何，这一进程可以告诉我们一些关于改革进程的机会和局限性的信息。利害关系不能再高了：一个重新启动和重塑的发展项目能否推动未来的发展政府朝着全新的方向发展。
Abstract The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been critiqued as an ambitious project which sought to produce entrepreneurial neo-liberal subjects. From this perspective, the opportunities and dangers of the post-2015 debates acquire a more urgent importance than the cynical dismissal of the MDGs as ‘minimum development goals’. This article identifies two potentially radical shifts in development discourse offered by the proposals for global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): first, that they might be genuinely global and hence destabilise long-standing divisions between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ societies; and second, that they might challenge existing growth paths of resource-intensive development. Two scenarios are offered through which these potential shifts are manifesting: first, a status-quo and growth-orientated outcome to the post-2015 agenda, and second, a more radical revisioning of development as a transformative project of global sustainability. However, even such an apparently attractive prospect as the latter has potential dangers, whether or not it is possible, which this article highlights. Whatever the outcome of the negotiations over the post-2015 SDGs, therefore, the process can tell us something about the opportunities and limits of processes of reform. The stakes could not be higher: whether a renewed and reshaped development project can drive future developmental governmentalities in radically new directions.