Author:
Bandola-Gill Justyna,Grek Sotiria,Tichenor Marlee
Abstract
AbstractThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) entail several innovations, not only in relation to their governing architecture but also in terms of the production of governing knowledge for global challenges. This chapter explores the epistemic practices by International Organisations (IOs) and working groups organised by the United Nations Statistical Commission, aimed at producing, valuing and legitimising (quantified) knowledge for global governance. In particular, this chapter discusses the ways in which indicators are proposed, deliberated and refined, and how conflicts over various indicators within the Sustainable Development Goals’ framework emerge and are solved. In order to do so, this chapter explores the intersection of social and epistemic practices of knowledge production by experts in IOs by tending to the role of the reclassification of indicators in terms of their technical robustness and the generative potential of such processes for shaping and enabling the SDG agenda.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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