Social Sustainability in Theory and Practice

30 credits

Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5GN107

A revised version of the reading list is available.
  • Abdallah, S., The Happy Planet Index, Part of: Perspectives on the History of Global Development, De Gruyter, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730234-014
  • Baffoe, G.; Mutisya, E., Social sustainability: A review of indicators and empirical application, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, 4(2), 2015
  • Bailey, D., The environmental paradox of the welfare state: The dynamics of sustainability, New political economy, 20(6), 2015
  • Boström, Magnus, et al., Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability: Procedural Prerequisites for Reaching Substantive Goals, Nature and Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2015
  • Cullather, N., Commentary: The New Epicureans, Part of: Perspectives on the History of Global Development, De Gruyter, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730234-015
  • Daly, H., A Note on the Historical Origins of ISEW-GPI, Part of: Perspectives on the History of Global Development, De Gruyter, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730234-011
  • Davies, T., Slow violence and toxic geographies: 'Out of sight' to whom?, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(2), 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419841063
  • De los Reyes, Paulina; Mulinari, Diana, Intersektionalitet: kritiska reflektioner över (o)jämlikhetens landskap., 1. uppl., Malmö, Liber, 2005
  • Diefenbacher, H., The Origins of the National Welfare Index (NWI, Part of: Perspectives on the History of Global Development, De Gruyter, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730234-012 (7
  • Esquivel, V., Power and the Sustainable Development Goals: a feminist analysis, Gender & Development, 24(1), 2016
  • Edling, Christofer; Liljeros, Fredrik, Ett delat samhälle: makt, intersektionalitet och social skiktning, 1. uppl., Malmö, Liber, 2010
  • Farmer, P., An anthropology of structural violence, Current anthropology, 45(3), 2004
  • Whittle, H. J. et al., Food insecurity, chronic illness, and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area: An example of structural violence in United States public policy, Social science & medicine, 143, 2015
  • Fritz, M.; Lee, J., Introduction to the special issue: Tackling inequality and providing sustainable welfare through eco-social policies, European Journal of Social Security, 25(4), 2023
  • Helne, T.; Hirvilammi, T., Wellbeing and sustainability: A relational approach, Sustainable Development, 2015
  • Jääskeläinen, T., The Sámi reindeer herders' conceptualizations of sustainability in the permitting of mineral extraction-contradictions related to sustainability criteria, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 43, 2020
  • Koch, M., Social policy without growth: Moving towards sustainable welfare states, Social Policy and Society, 21(3), 2022
  • Leave No One Behind, UN Sustainable Development Group, 2017, https://unsceb.org/sites/default/files/imported_files/CEB%20equality%20framework-A4-web-rev3.pdf
  • Malmberg, C.; Urbas, A., Social hållbarhet, ansvar och unga medborgare, Part of: Social hållbarhet: vision, kritik och praktik, Upplaga 1, Lund, Studentlitteratur, [2025]
  • Mensah, J., Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review, Cogent Social Sciences, 5(1), 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1653531
  • Murphy, Kevin, The social pillar of sustainable development: a literature review and framework for policy analysis, Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 8 (1), 2012
  • Mål för jämställdhet, Regeringen, 2016, http://: https://www.regeringen.se/regeringens-politik/jamstalldhet/mal-for-jamstalldhet/
  • Nixon, R., Slow violence, gender, and the environmentalism of the poor, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Vols, 13(14.1), 2007
  • Ernman, Malena et al., Our house is on fire, [London], Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020
  • Rönnblom, Malin, Vad är problemet?: konstruktioner av jämställdhet i svensk politik, Part of: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, 2011:2/3, s. 33-55
  • Sainsbury, Diane; Bergqvist, Christina, The Promise and Pitfalls of Gender Mainstreaming., in International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2009
  • Saldert, H., Social sustainability for whom? The role of discursive boundary objects in Swedish strategic urban planning, Geoforum, 152, 2024
  • Scoones, I., The politics of sustainability and development, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 41(1), 2016
  • Slavnic, Zoran; Oberg, Klara, International Migration and Economic Informalization, SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2025
  • Asara, V. et al., Socially sustainable degrowth as a social-ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability, Sustainability Science, 10, 2015
  • Sørly, Rita; Ghaye, Tony; Kårtveit, Bård Helge, Stories of change and sustainability in the Arctic regions: the interdependence of local and global, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2022
  • Dempsey, N. et al., The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability, Sustainable development, 19(5), 2011
  • Thomas, Leah, The intersectional environmentalist: how to dismantle systems of oppression to protect people + planet, First edition., New York, Voracious, Little, Brown and Company, 2022
  • Vallance, Suzanne; Perkins, Harvey, C.; Dixon, Jennifer E., What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts, Geoforum, 42(3), 2011

* Compulsory