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This short piece concludes this edition of Points and Practices by bringing together the contributions and offering some provocations for how they help to conceptualise the relationship between applied theatre and global sustainable development.
KEYWORDS Global sustainable development; applied theatreTo bring the contributions of this issue of Points and Practices together, I offer some provocations on the terms 'global' and 'sustainable' and how, when used in conjunction with 'development', these might interact with applied theatre. To do so, I locate the themes outlined by the articles against the changing landscape of development. Central to a conceptual shift in development are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which follow up where the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) left off. The latter shaped development from 2000-2015 and were criticised as imposing agendas from the Global North upon the South (for example, Bond 2006). The SDGs, however, were agreed upon through more consultative processes that involved countries from both the Global North and South in dialogue (Horner 2019). The SDGs outline 17 goals which aim to act against poverty, the climate crisis and hunger, while promoting education, gender equality, and more. Importantly, these goals are framed as global concerns. Indeed, countries across the North and South have signed up to meet thema key difference from the MDGs which were aims only to be met by those in the South. In development studies, some have argued this signals a blurring of the 'developed' global North and 'under-developed' South, stressing the need for global collaborations and interconnected partnerships to solve global challenges, rather than the problematic framing of the South as 'in need' (Scholte and Söderbaum 2015).
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