Discussing sustainability from the margins

The long-awaited edited volume “Decolonizing Sustainable Development Goals” has been published open access. I am extremely grateful to the editors for all their efforts in making this book available beyond library access and institutional affiliations.

This book analyzes the well-known SDGs from a very important but rarely addressed angle: Indigenous and local perspectives. It shows why the goals cannot be taken for granted, but need to be critically discussed to limit conflicts and tensions during their implementation.

In my chapter, I discuss the results of my project that focused on more-than-human impacts of energy transition in Finland. It is alarming, I believe, that the global narratives of energy transition often overlook the affected local actors – and not only human ones. In the chapter, I discuss the impact of transition on several animal species, and also show how energy infrastructures become parts of inhabited landscapes.

To continue this topic, next week I will be speaking about more-than-human impacts of green and digital transition in the Arctic at the REBOUND seminar series in Helsinki. The seminar is hybrid and open to everybody interested in the topic.

Please read more and register here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/socio-legal/2026/04/27/rebound-seminar-series-spring-2026/

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