Humanities & the SDGs
Humanities & the SDGs
Resources
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Institute for Research on Public Policy
Article on how we need humanities students for SDGs and global/climate work. We need to be able to conceptualize possibilities. Current framing often ignores growing demands for “hybrids”.
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SDGs for All: Humanities to the Rescue
UNESCO seeks to redefine the foundations, roles and responsibilities of the humanities in contemporary society. The humanities have an essential role to play to help us face the major challenges in the world today and to achieve the SDGs through the study of history, critical thinking and nuanced analysis. The role of the humanities to tackle extremism.
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Student Activism in Achieving the SDGs
Student activism has an important role to play in achieving the SDGs. Higher education institutions have an important role in advancing sustainable development through well-articulated student voices as a lever for social and economic change
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What Can Sociology Contribute to the SDGs
MDGs failed due to a lack of a comprehensive theory of change. Sociology's contribution to SDGs is to highlight sociological theory, methods, and research that provide guidance on social innovation and societal transformation. Need a better understanding of how large-scale innovation and transformation occurs.
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Defining Environmental Sociology
It explores the relationships between social systems and the ecosphere. Includes study of the origins and impacts of technology, the social causes of environmental change, the environmental causes of social change, and the consequences of social inequalities and power relationships for socio-environmental dynamics.
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The Contribution of Social Studies to Sustainable Development
Efforts to transition to sustainability have been largely dominated by technological “solutions” and universities and colleges. Social innovations needed to achieve sustainability on campuses and beyond. The social sciences can broaden visions of what may be possible, identify the advantages and disadvantages of different instrumental and emancipator approaches, evaluate interventions’ effectiveness, and offer processes for learning from mistakes and successes in ways that support continuous advances toward sustainability.
Organizations
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Canadian Women's Foundation
Funds programs in areas of eliminating violence and poverty, female empowerment, and inclusive leadership.
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Equality Fund
Largest self-sustaining fund for gender equality in the world. Combine gender-lens investing, bold government funding, and powerful, multi-sector philanthropy to unlock new capital for feminist movements globally.
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ACORN Canada
Multi-issue, membership-based community union of low- and moderate-income people. We believe that social and economic justice can best be achieved by building community power for change.
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Action Against Hunger
Tackles acute malnutrition using an integrated nutrition strategy. Combines the assessment of the nutritional status of children, treatment of acute malnutrition, and prevention of all forms.
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Canada Without Poverty
Seeks to eradicate poverty in Canada for the benefit of all by educating Canadians about the human and financial cost of poverty, and by identifying public policy solutions.
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Native Women's Association of Canada
National Indigenous Organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada.
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Indspire
An indigenous national charity that invests in the education of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
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True North Aid
Committed to serving northern communities in Canada with practical humanitarian support.
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Section on Environmental Sociology
Provides a home for sociologists interested in issues of society and the environment. Part of the American Sociological Association.
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Canadian Sociological Association
Resources by the Environmental Sociology Research Cluster. Provide information to a varied audience including academics, students, the media, policymakers, and non-governmental organizations.
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Citizens for Public Justice
National, progressive organization of members who are inspired by faith to act for social and environmental justice in Canadian public policy. Three key policy areas: poverty in Canada, climate justice, and refugee rights.
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Canadian Equality Consulting
Turn diversity into a sustainable business advantage. Work in the energy, non-profit, government and political sectors. Tackling gender, diversity and inclusion-related challenges, solving institutional problems.
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Canadian Coalition to Empower Women
Bring together Canada's innovative private sector dedicated to engaging, developing and promoting women and gender equality in the workplace, marketplace, and community with visionary organizations and governmental leaders leveraging the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and the SDGs to achieve gender equality and inclusive diversity in Canada.
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National Organization for Women
Grassroots arm of the women’s movement, dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights. take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
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Gender at Work
Work in partnership with activists and researchers to bring together new knowledge on deep structures of inequality and discriminatory social norms, with innovative approaches and tools to transform them in organizations and communities.
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Center for Reproductive Rights
Global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.
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Native American Rights Fund
Provides legal assistance to Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation.
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Warrior Women Project
Building a comprehensive, community-based archive of oral history interviews with key organizers and activists of the Red Power Movement of the 1970s into modern Indigenous struggles.
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Future Ancestors Services
Indigenous and Black-owned, youth-led professional services social enterprise that advances climate justice and equity with lenses of anti-racism and ancestral accountability.
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Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Facilitate throughout Canada the development, sharing and application of knowledge and expertise in order to contribute to the elimination of racism and all forms of racial discrimination in society. Undertake research, act as a clearinghouse, facilitate consultation, increase public awareness, etc.
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