Sustainability in Action

This book examines the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals in practice and ideation. It explores how sustainability is exercised in a variety of public, political and cultural contexts, ranging from preserving indigenous voices and oral traditions; the appropriation of sustainability narratives by multinationals and large corporations; the democratising impact of streaming services on short-form film and video content; sustainability practices in the creative industries; the essential formation and preservation of communities through the arts; and threats to achieving sustainability in response to the UK's current higher education crisis. The book employs a multidisciplinary approach to sustainability that sits across cultural studies, politics, sociology and media, with contributing authors from New Zealand, Malysia, Indonesia, Denmark, and the UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2: Storyworld Building in Sustainable Screenplay Development: The Case of the Short Film Climate Warrior. - Chapter 3: The Relationship Between Community-based Dance Practices, Social Sustainability, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. - Chapter 4: An accessible agent for change: female directed narrative shorts, UN SDGs and the promotion of gender equality. - Chapter 5: Empowering Sustainable Development Goals: How Animation Drives Social Change and Awareness. - Chapter 6: Money Changes Everything: How Streaming Services are Decolonizing Content Production Through Sustainability and Diversity of Production, Voice and Audience. - Chapter 7: Sustainable Software for Greener Screenwriting: A Danish cross-disciplinary project. - Chapter 8: Small-scale Sustainable Filmmaking. - Chapter 9: Conflict between Stakeholders on the Implementation of SDGs: Cases from Indonesia. - Chapter 10:Communicating Public Action for Social Change: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of SDG Local Action. - Chapter 11: Climate Change, Conspiracy, and the SDGS expanding the negotiated politics of sovereignty, protest and activism. - Chapter 12: Managerial Power in UK Higher Education: Negative Sustainability and `Sub-Prime Disaggregation . - Chapter 13: Conclusion.