This book challenges conventional accounts of international development policy by exploring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a hegemonic and colonial project. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Clive Gabay is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics. He works on issues related to development, colonialism, race and anarchism.

Suzan Ilcan is a Professor of Sociology. She conducts research on development and humanitarian aid, migration, and citizenship and social justice.

Foreword: The Shared Humanity of Global Development: Bio-politics and the SDGs Introduction: Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 1. Universal Access to Affordable Housing? Interrogating an Elusive Development Goal 2. Politics of Poverty: The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Business of Agriculture 3. Are Equity and Sustainability a Likely Outcome When Foxes and Chickens Share the Same Coop? Critiquing the Concept of Multistakeholder Governance of Food Security 4. Politics of 'Leaving No One Behind': Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 5. Migration and Development after 2015 6. Re-centring 'Race' in Development: Population Policies and Global Capital Accumulation in the Era of the SDGs 7. Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda 8. The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data