The gender equality discourse of the Sustainable Development Goals and other instruments: Advancing feminist agendas in Africa?

Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development

“…Only critical feminist reflections about the agenda raise questions about its legitimacy, explore new narratives and aim to construct alternative agendas (e.g. Esquivel, 2016;Haysom, 2018;Stuart and Woodroffe, 2016;Tallis and Mathonsi, 2018). However, these analyses also focus on the specific content of the agenda and on the potential effects of the goals and targets, not on the legitimacy of the plan of action as such.…”

“…Since the publication of the agenda in 2015, most critical literature focused on the second and third parts of the document – what and how . For example, on the capitalistic and neoliberal character of the goals (Carroll and Jarvis, 2015; Mediavilla and Garcia-Arias, 2019; Weber, 2017); on the difficulty of measuring the achievements (Fukuda-Parr, 2019; Kapto, 2019; MacFeely, 2019; Ordaz, 2019); on the ambiguity of – and the contradictions between – the goals and targets (Adelman, 2017; Fletcher and Rammelt, 2017; Giannetti et al, 2020; Kedir et al, 2017; Koehler, 2016; Soederberg, 2017); and on the problems that the coordination proposed by the agenda generates (Novitz and Pieraccini, 2020; Pingeot, 2016; Saner et al, 2017; Scheyvens et al, 2016). The research analysing the implementation of the agenda and the achievement of the goals and targets in specific contexts (e.g.…”