{"title":"‘Transforming our world’? A historical materialist critique of the sustainable development agenda","authors":"Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis","doi":"10.1093/lril/lrad013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Questioning the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals, the article mobilises elements of critical theory in order to demonstrate how contemporary forms of global sustainability governance refrain from tackling the capitalist roots of unsustainable development. For this reason, they remain incapable of delivering on their promises of world transformation.","PeriodicalId":43782,"journal":{"name":"London Review of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"London Review of International Law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Questioning the transformative potential of the Sustainable Development Goals, the article mobilises elements of critical theory in order to demonstrate how contemporary forms of global sustainability governance refrain from tackling the capitalist roots of unsustainable development. For this reason, they remain incapable of delivering on their promises of world transformation.