A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

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.

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

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)