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Farewell and See You Again Soon: The Millennium Development Goals and the Prospects of the Neoliberal Development Project

Special Forum on the Millennium Development Goals: Introduction

Pages 576-580 | Published online: 12 Jun 2015
 

Abstract

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight time-bound targets aiming, amongst other issues, to reduce extreme poverty, address school enrollment and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS, expire in September 2015. World leaders, civil society organisations, philanthropists, and the private sector are all frantically negotiating and consulting over what will follow them. This special forum in Globalizations is dedicated to questions which explore the politics of the MDGs, and the subsequent discussions which are framing their successor development framework, the Sustainable Development Goals. Most research into the MDGs tends to be technocratic, addressing issues of how we might achieve the goals better, faster, and more efficiently. Questions of what kinds of societies might be created by the achievement of the goals, and what alternative societies people living in poverty might wish to build for themselves tend to get left aside, as do questions which address the fundamentally capitalocentric logics which underpin the MDGs. This special forum introduction briefly explores some of these issues before introducing the contributors, who include leading scholars on the critical politics and international political economy of international development, such as Suzan Ilcan, Philip McMichael, Kathleen Sexsmith, Carl Death, Japhy Wilson, Anita Lacey, Maia Green, and Heloise Weber.

Extracto – Las metas de Desarrollo del Milenio (MDGs por sus siglas en ingles) de la Naciones Unidas, la octava versión de metas, orientadas entre otras a la reducción de la pobreza extrema, el acceso a la educación y la permanencia del SIDA/VIH, se vencen en septiembre de 2015. Líderes mundiales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, filántropos y el sector privado están envueltos, todos ellos, en frenéticas negociaciones y consultas sobre qué será lo siguiente. Este especial foro de Globalización está dedicado a preguntas que exploran las políticas de las MDG y las subsecuentes discusiones que están dando forma al marco sucesor de desarrollo, Las Metas de Desarrollo Sostenible. La mayor parte de las investigaciones sobre las MDG tiende a ser de tecnocrática, tratando temas de cómo podemos mejor alcanzar tales metas, con mayor rapidez y en forma más eficiente. Las preguntas respecto a qué tipo de sociedades deben ser creadas para alcanzar estas metas y sobre en qué tipo de sociedades alternativas pueden desear vivir las personas que viven en extrema pobreza, tienden a der dejadas por fuera, como también sucede con las preguntas que tratan la lógica fundamental centrada en el capital, que respaldan las MDG. Esta especial introducción al foro, explora brevemente algunos de estos temas antes de incorporar a sus contribuyentes, que incluyen prestantes académicos en las políticas críticas y política económica internacional de desarrollo, tales como Suzan Ilcan, Philip McMichael, Kathleen Sexsmith, Carl Death, Japhy Wilson, Anita Lacey, Maia Green y Heloise Weber.

Notes

1 This was a notion reinforced in personal correspondence with Arturo Escobar in 2013.

Additional information

Clive Gabay is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His work explores state–society relations in Malawi and colonial Afro-optimism. He is the author of Tales of an African civil society: Development and democracy in Malawi 1994–2014 (Lexington Books, 2015) and co-author of Critical perspectives on African politics: Liberal interventions, state-building and civil society (Routledge, 2014).

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