Harbisher has collected 11 essays reviewing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals created by the United Nations under UN Resolution 70/1 to promote life, equality, health, and the environment. The Sustainable Development Goals include aspirations such as ending poverty and hunger, promoting health and well-being, ending gender inequality, creating sustainable cities and communities, and developing partnerships to work toward these goals. The book is divided into three sections, focusing on social theory and politics, journalistic mediation and framing, and sustainability and education. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

Choice Reviews

This volume makes an important contribution to a timely and long-standing issue: the promises and pitfalls of supranational attempts to tackle global vulnerabilities. Discussing the discourses surrounding these attempts and the exclusions they create, it is an essential reading for anyone interested in public policy, global inequalities, and social movements.

Nayia Kamenou, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus

Ben Harbisher’s book stands out as a rich and diverse collection of critical analyses about sustainability as a political concept and the mediation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals agenda. A valuable reading to problematise sustainability while debates shift away from dominant ideals of global progress and toward self-preservation instincts in post-pandemic societies.

Giuliana Tiripelli, digital journalism and media discourse, De Montfort University

Ben Harbisher’s book reveals the unsung heroes of the SDG initiatives and provides competing narratives against those promoted by the multinationals. It is a must-read book for anyone who is interested in uncovering the reality and ongoing struggles surrounding the implementation of SDGs among the stakeholders.

Rudi Sukander, LSPR Institute of Communication and Business, Jakarta, Indonesia