In recent years, global attention on international development has coalesced around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Introduced to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015, the SDGs provide a dominant global framework for thinking about, implementing and measuring development until 2030. While the SDGs are lauded for approaching international development as a global concern and not simply something restricted to the Global South, issues of power and space continue to frame this field. Responding to these concerns, this article reflects upon the role of power and space in relation to who decides what development is and where development happens, who is represented as needing to undergo development and who is positioned as having responsibility and agency for securing development. In doing so, this article shows how power matters in terms of understandings and representations of development (who is depicted, in what ways and with what level of agency); space matters because of where development policy decisions are made - and about where - and development imagery constructed.

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谁的发展？国际发展的力量与空间

近年来，全球对国际发展的关注已围绕可持续发展目标 (SDG) 展开。可持续发展目标于 2015 年推出以取代千年发展目标 (MDG)，为思考、实施和衡量 2030 年之前的发展提供了一个占主导地位的全球框架。在全球南方，权力和空间问题继续构成该领域的框架。针对这些担忧，本文反思了权力和空间在谁决定发展是什么以及发展发生在何处、谁被代表需要进行发展以及谁被定位为对确保发展负有责任和代理权方面的作用。在这样做，这篇文章展示了权力在对发展的理解和表述方面的重要性（描绘了谁，以何种方式以及以何种级别的代理）；空间很重要，因为发展政策的决定是在哪里做出的——以及关于在哪里——以及发展的构想。